Mercado v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.3d 276 · 2016
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez · Moncrieffe v. Holder · Zhu v. Gonzales · Jacobs v. National Drug Intelligence Center · United States v. Alcantar
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one panel of our court may not overturn another panel's decision, absent an intervening change in the law, such as by a statutory amendment, or the Supreme Court, or our en banc court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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