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909 F.3d 252 · 2018

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13
cited by 13 later decisions
September 2025
most recently cited

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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1226 (§ 236 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · United States v. Salerno · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al.

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

  1. “We have grave doubts that any statute that allows for arbitrary prolonged detention without any process is constitutional or that those who founded our democracy precisely to protect against the government's arbitrary deprivation of liberty would have thought so. Arbitrary civil detention is not a feature of our American government.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]e have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (f)(1) … All of the individuals in the putative class are 'individuals against whom proceedings under such part have been initiated' and are pursuing habeas claims, albeit as a class, which nowhere appears affected by § 1252(f)(1).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[were] not asking for review of an order of removal ... [were] not challenging the decision to detain them in the first place or to seek removal; and ... [were] not even challenging any part of the process by which their removability will be determined.”
    1 later decision 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.