Clark v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 1329 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2020
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
Relies on Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · United States Knauff v. Shaughnessy · Rodriguez-Fernandez v. Wilkinson · Moret v. Karn
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have no basis on this appeal to review the exercise of the discretion of the Attorney General in denying parole [under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A)], although we observe that this discretion, while large, is not unlimited.”
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.