intent exception
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 459 U.S. 21 - Landon v. Plasencia · 1982Most cited · 1,521 citing opinions
an intent to depart in a "manner which can be regarded as meaningfully interruptive of the alien's permanent residence."
374 U. S, at 462.
How often courts cite the case defining “intent exception”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intent exception” — 1,514 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.