Polovchak v. Meese’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 731 · 1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016
5 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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. § 1185 (§ 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Santosky v. Kramer · Gault
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lower end of an age range in which a minor may be mature enough to assert certain individual rights that equal or override those of [their] parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court reviewing the process afforded by the government when a fundamental interest is at stake must weigh (a) the private interest affected by the proceeding and (b) the risk of error inherent in the government’s chosen procedure against (c) the interest of the government in using its own procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he parents' claim to authority in their own household to direct the rearing of their children is basic in the structure of our society.”
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.