20 I. & N. Dec. 475 - ARTHUR’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Oscar Socop-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001), Khan v. Attorney General of the United States (2006)
21 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress rather clearly created a presumption that marriages contracted after the institution of exclusion or deportation proceedings are fraudulent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“married his wife on January 18, 1991, subsequent to the immigration judge's decision in the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ssali v. Gonzales
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.