Solis-Ramirez v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1426 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Veal (1998), United States v. Frank (2010)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Barrett v. United States · Just v. Chambers · Holt Civic Club v. City of Tuscaloosa · Nishimatsu Construction Co. v. Houston National Bank · Associated Builders, Inc. v. Alabama Power Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless -a statute is inescapably ambiguous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.