6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 24 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Stanton v. Stanton.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanton v. Stanton Anchor | green | “must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.” | 6 |
| 2 | Ernest Francis v. Immigration and Naturalization Service | green | “reason and fairness would suggest that an alien whose ties with this country are so strong that he has never departed after his initial entry should receive at least as much consideration as an individual who may leave and return from time to time.” | 5 |
| 3 | Reynaldo Requena-Rodriguez v. Kenneth Pasquarell, Immigration & Naturalization Service, District Director | green | “create an incentive for deportable aliens to leave the country.” | 4 |
| 4 | Andres Antonio Campos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service | green | “such judicial legislating would vastly overstep our limited scope of judicial inquiry into immigration legislation, and would interfere with the broad enforcement powers congress has delegated to the attorney general.” | 3 |
| 5 | Andres Antonio Campos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service | green | “would extend discretionary review to every ground for deportation that could constitute the essential elements of a crime involving moral turpitude.” | 3 |
| 6 | California v. Level | green | “the government's current position that those precedents which limit section 212(c) to exclusion proceedings are erroneous and should be overruled.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.