Amanullah v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1 · 1987
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 24 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Blackie v. Maine (1996), Greenwood Trust Company v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1992)
38 federal appellate · 24 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. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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. § 1225 (§ 235 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))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Townsend v. Sain · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public interest.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every alien ... who may not appear to the examining immigration officer at the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land shall be detained for further inquiry.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“facially legitimate and bona fide reason”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Daoud v. Barr · Adams v. Baker
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.