16 I. & N. Dec. 596 - ANDERSON’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Rivera-Zurita v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1991), Alejandro Reyes-Melendez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2003)
23 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on SANGSTER
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when other factors such as advanced age, severe illness, family ties, etc. [,] combine with economic detriment to make deportation extremely hard on the alien or the citizen or permanent resident members of his family ... Congress has authorized suspension of the deportation order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“financial hardship in the absence of substantial additional equities has not been a persuasive factor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Conditions in an alien's homeland are relevant in determining hardship....”
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.