Gil v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.3d 184 · 2017
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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))
Relies on Lalli v. Lalli · Berenyi v. District Director, Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ashton v. Gonzales · Poole v. Mukasey · De Los Santos v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A child born outside of the United States of alien parents ... becomes a citizen of the United States upon ... [t]he naturalization of the parent having legal custody of the child when there has been a legal separation of the parents ... if ... [s]uch naturalization takes place while such child is under the age' of eighteen years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammond v. Sessions
How this case has been treated — in progress
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