IBRAHIM’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
8 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))
Relies on Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Prepmore Apparel, Inc. · Jain v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Chen v. Foley · Soo Yuen v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ameeriar 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Immigration and Nationality Act makes immediate relative status a special and weighty equity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In view of this most favorable status accorded by Congress, we believe it appropriate to accord greater weight to immediate relative status than to visa-preference status when making discretionary determinations under the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Entry into the United States with a preconceived intention to remain was once a statutory bar to adjustment of status. Congress eliminated that bar in 1960.”
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.