Brown v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.3d 1141 · 2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1432 (§ 321 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1448 (§ 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Daniels v. Williams · Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Barron v. Ashcroft
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Brown had such a protected interest in being able to apply for citizenship, both as an adult and derivatively through his mother as a minor. As the government conceded at oral argument, Brown had a right to apply for citizenship, established by federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberately indifferent to whether his application was processed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dent v. Sessions
How this case has been treated — in progress
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