KANE’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 229
Relies on Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding · Savorgnan v. United States · Kirby v. Illinois · Saxbe v. Bustos · Tejeda v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Kane] has no job in the United States. Her husband resides in the United States but she separated from him and moved to Florida prior to her 1967 departure. She appears to have a sister in the United States, but there is no showing that she makes her home with her sister. During each of her annual trips to the United States, she has rented accommodations on a temporary basis in a rooming house in Florida.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“change in status Congress had in mind [in § 1101(a)(20) ] was a change from an immigrant lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the status of a nonimmigrant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.