LAUREANO’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Nakamoto v. Ashcroft (2004), Damon v. Ashcroft (2004)
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1151 (§ 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Lutwak v. United States · Bark v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Johl v. United States · 412 F. Supp. 1021 - McLat v. Longo
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A marriage that is entered into for the primary purpose of circumventing the immigration laws, referred to as a fraudulent or sham marriage, has not been recognized as enabling an alien spouse to obtain immigration benefits.... The central question is whether the bride and groom intended to establish a life together at the time they were married.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Puelles v. Mukasey
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.