United States v. Vasquez-Olvera’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 943 · 1993
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), United States v. Forbes (1994)
35 federal appellate · 1 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 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (§ 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (§ 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Hamling v. United States · United States v. American Trucking Associations · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Batchelder · Garrett 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is highly unlikely that Congress would structure the statute in such a way that subsection (b) is dependant on elements of subsection (a), if it intended for subsection (b) to be a separate criminal offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] prior felony conviction is an element of the crime with which appellants were charged, 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1326(b)(1), but is not an element of the crime to which they pleaded guilty, 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1326(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicates that section 1326 provides for one crime--reentry of deported aliens--but harsher penalties for certain classes of deported aliens--those committing felonies.”
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.