Bright v. Parra’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 31 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024
5 federal appellate ·
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 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · Anetekhai v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Consolidated Rail Corp. v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“policy questions entrusted exclusively to the political branches of our Government, and we have no judicial authority to substitute our political judgment for that of the Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the limited scope of judicial inquiry into immigration legislation”
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.