Doherty v. Meese’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 938 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 2101 · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 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. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Heckler v. Chaney · Patterson v. United States · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Bertrand v. Sava · United States ex rel. Potash v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he deportation of an alien in the United States . . . shall be directed by the Attorney General to a country promptly designated by the alien if that country is willing to accept him into its territory, unless the Attorney General, in his discretion, concludes that deportation to such country would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he requisite judgment requires an essentially political determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are unwilling to find that deportation to the Republic of Ireland would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States in the absence of clear evidence to support that conclusion.”
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.