Mason v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 190 · 1988
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Ayala-Chavez v. U.S. Immigration Naturalization Service (1991), Barrera-Echavarria v. Rison (1995)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1440 (§ 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1445 (§ 334 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Kleindienst v. Mandel · United States Knauff v. Shaughnessy
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Attorney General may ... in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily, under such conditions as he may prescribe for emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public interest any alien applying for admission to the United States.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress has forcefully expressed our national policy against persons who possess controlled substances by enacting laws ... to exclude them from the United States if they are aliens.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requirement that the current version does), the Ninth Circuit held The legislative history of the parole provision indicates that Congress intended that temporary admission be granted infrequently.... [”
2 later decisions 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.