Martinez-Cedillo v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.3d 979 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 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. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bailey v. United States · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain
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.
“a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At a minimum, this definition encompasses convictions for offenses involving the infliction on a child of physical harm, even if slight; mental or emotional harm, including acts injurious to morals; sexual abuse, including direct acts of sexual contact, but also including acts that induce (or omissions that permit) a child to engage in prostitution, pornography, or other sexually explicit conduct; as well as any act that involves the use or exploitation of a child as an object of sexual gratification or as a tool in the commission of serious crimes, such as drug trafficking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Barr“[A]cts creating a likelihood of harm to a child ... fit within our definition of a 'crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment.' "). 2. Chevron deference Ordinarily, this court must apply the Chevron two-step analysis to determine whether to defer to the BIA's construction of the generic term "crime of child abuse”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.