SALIM’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025
11 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 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1159 (§ 209 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Balani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Djordje Kovac v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, John P. Boyd, District Director, Seattle, Washington · McMullen v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Rosenberg v. Yee Chien Woo · Kashani 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ttempting entry into the United States by way of fraudulently obtained documentation has consistently been considered a strong negative discretionary factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from persecution claims by aliens who merely seek to avoid military service in their country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“dragooning and forcibly impressing into its forces men and boys as replacements”
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.