Ma v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 128 · 1997
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Taniguchi v. Schultz (2002), Galt G/S v. JSS Scandinavia (1998)
31 federal appellate · 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. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1329 (§ 279 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Darby v. Cisneros · Sahni v. American Diversified Partners · Acura of Bellevue v. Reich
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is concerned with whether the initial decision-maker has arrived at a definitive position on the issue that inflicts an actual, concrete injury.”
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.