HUANG’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Cuevas-Gaspar v. Gonzales (2005), Singh v. Reno (1997)
17 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1181 (§ 211 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. § 1361 (§ 291 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Landon v. Plasencia · Adams v. Tanner · Saxbe v. Bustos · United States Polymeris v. Trudell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the applicant's status has changed by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a colorable claim to returning resident status,”
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.