Silveyra v. Moschorak’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 1012 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Ardestani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Work v. United States Rives · Castillo-Villagra v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Carpet Linoleum and Resilient Tile Layers Local Union No Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades v. Brown
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either that INS violated applicable standards in his case, or that INS's policy is so inadequate as to be beyond the limits of INS's discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]andamus may not be used to instruct an official how to exercise discretion unless that official has ignored or violated statutory or regulatory standards delimiting the scope or manner in which such discretion can be exercised.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of an alien who is convicted of an offense which makes the alien subject to deportation, the Attorney General shall begin any deportation proceeding as expeditiously as possible after the date of the conviction.”
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.