RECINAS’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Lopez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft (2004), Barco-Sandoval v. Gonzales (2007)
21 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. § 1229B (§ 240a 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any hardship case . . . succeeds or fails on its own merits and on the particular facts presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]onsideration should be given to the age, health, and circumstances of the qualifying family members, including how a lower standard of living or adverse country conditions in the country of return might affect those relatives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“constitutes a high threshold that is in keeping with Congress' intent to substantially narrow the class of aliens who would qualify for relief.”
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.