No. 87-6315’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2016
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Cortez · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · McBoyle v. United States · Eddy v. Hess · United States v. Fruit Growers Express Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On its own terms, ... it seems that Moreno was wrongly decided. In Moreno , the defendant knowingly transported illegal aliens to a job site where they had established employment. This employment supported these illegal aliens financially, provided them with the daily necessities of life and gave them hope for the future. No one could reasonably suggest that there was no “direct or substantial relationship between the transportation and its furtherance of the alien’s presence in the United States” since this language focuses on the effect of the transportation not upon its purpose. ... While appealing to common sense on a rhetorical level, the Moreno approach fails to draw any sort of principled distinction “between acts performed with the purpose of promoting an alien’s illegal conduct, and acts which are incidental to or merely permit an individual to maintain his existence, albeit his existence occurs in this country and he is not duly admitted here. The reason for this failure is because the approach focuses on the effect of the transportation of the illegal alien and not upon its purpose.”
1 later decision 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.