Correa v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 1166 · 1990
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States of v. Alejandro Pacheco-Medina (2000), Zhang v. Slattery & C (1995)
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
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 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Kleindienst v. Mandel
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a crossing into the territorial limits of the United States, i.e. physical presence; (2) (a) an inspection and admission by an immigration officer or (b) actual and intentional evasion of inspection at the nearest inspection point; and (3) freedom from official restraint.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]eportation proceedings are generally more favorable to the alien than exclusion proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free to ... go at large and mix with the general population.”
3 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.