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alien parole

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 357 U.S. 185 - Leng May Ma v. Barber · 1958Most cited · 681 citing opinions

The parole of aliens seeking admission is simply a device through which needless confinement is avoided while administrative proceedings are conducted. It was never intended to affect an alien's status

How often courts cite the case defining “alien parole”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “alien parole” — 680 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.