MARIN’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Rashtabadi v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994)
142 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Francis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Lennon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Oliver v. United States Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service · Vissian v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Guan Chow Tok v. 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must balance the adverse factors evidencing an alien's undesirability as a permanent resident with the social and humane considerations presented in his behalf.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“unusual or outstanding countervailing equities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As the negative factors grow more serious, it becomes incumbent upon the applicant to introduce additional offsetting favorable evidence, which in some cases may have to involve unusual or outstanding equities. Such a showing at times may be required solely by virtue of the circumstances and nature of the exclusion ground sought waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Samuels v. Chertoff
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.