NAFI’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2011
5 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. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1361 (§ 291 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Patel v. United States 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]pplications for benefits under the Immigration and Nationality Act are customarily denied as abandoned or for lack of prosecution when the alien fails to file for or pursue them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable cause for his failure to appear.”
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.