Jean v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that aliens outside United States have no rights under U.S. Constitution
• finding that challenged restrictions on HRC’s access to Haitians did not “amount to an absolute denial of access”
• discussing the extremely limited scope of judicial review in matters of immigration that have been committed solely to the discretion of executive officials
• discussing the extremely limited scope of judicial review in matters of immigration that have been committed solely to the discretion of executive officials
• remanding to district court for determination as to “whether lower-level INS officials have abused their discretion by discriminating on the basis of national origin in violation of facially neutral instructions from their superiors”
• “the immediate implications of parole and legal admission are identical in a number of important respects”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

190 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 1,875×
• McNary v. Haitian Refugee Center, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-20· cited 609×
• Jean v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-26· cited 513×
• Marie Lucie Jean v. Alan C. Nelson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-12-27· cited 505×
• Virginia Ragon Achacoso-Sanchez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-12-13· cited 365×
• Kathy Jo Taylor, a Minor, by and Through David S. Walker, Jr., Attorney at Law as Guardian Ad Litem v. James G. Ledbetter, ph.d.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-06-09· cited 272×
• Lawton Chiles, Jr., Bob Martinez, Metropolitan Dade County, Intervenors-Appellants v. Richard Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-02-16· cited 217×
• Errol Lynch v. Joseph S. Cannatella, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-02-27· cited 212×
• Moises Garcia-Mir v. William French Smith
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-11· cited 162×
• Haitian Refugee Center v. James S. Gracey, Admiral/commandant, United States Coast Guard
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-01-09· cited 150×
• Tefel v. Reno
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-07-14· cited 145×
• Nadarajah v. Gonzales
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-03-17· cited 131×
• Rene Carvajal-Munoz v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-09-12· cited 129×
• Chi Thon Ngo A/K/A David Lam v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Third Circuit· 1999-09-24· cited 116×
• Alexis Barrera-Echavarria v. Richard H. Rison, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-01-12· cited 114×
• Garcia-Mir v. Meese
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-01-21· cited 109×
• Felix Gonzalez Gisbert v. U.S. Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-28· cited 106×
• Crosby Wilfredo Orantes-Hernandez v. Richard Thornburgh
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-11-20· cited 101×
• United States v. Fritznel Reme and Fritz Pierrot
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-08-09· cited 99×
• Lin Guo Xi v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Opinion
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-08-01· cited 97×

Cites

74 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Hewitt v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,877×
• Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1886-05-10· cited 3,789×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 3,080×
• Bishop v. Wood
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-10· cited 2,973×
• Plyler v. Doe
  Supreme Court· 1982-09-09· cited 2,739×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 2,614×
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court· 1952-06-02· cited 1,646×
• Graham v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-14· cited 1,494×
• Abel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 1,485×
• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• Murray Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-06-28· cited 1,401×
• Mathews v. Diaz
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-01· cited 1,237×
• Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 1,206×
• Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-01· cited 973×
• Kleindienst v. Mandel
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 952×
• Landon v. Plasencia
  Supreme Court· 1982-11-15· cited 890×
• Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei
  Supreme Court· 1953-03-16· cited 871×
• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1951-10-15· cited 849×
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1936-12-21· cited 830×