TAWFIK’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Bangura v. Hansen (2006), ANA International Inc. v. Way (2004)
9 federal appellate · 6 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1155 (§ 205 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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.
“may rely on any relevant evidence, including evidence having its origin in prior [USCIS] proceedings involving the beneficiary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“for `good and sufficient cause' when the evidence of record at the time of issuance ... would warrant a denial of the visa petition ...”
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.