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← 873 F.2d 1396 - In Re Alan C. Nelson

In Re Alan C. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
August 1992
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on St. Regis Paper Co. v. United States · Freeman v. Seligson

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to assure applicants that the legalization process is serious, and not a ruse to invite undocumented aliens to come forward only to be snared by the INS.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “where Congress has thought it necessary to protect against court use of records it has expressly so provided by specific language.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “suppress otherwise competent evidence unless the statute, strictly construed, requires such a result.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.