MONREAL’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft (2003), Gonzalez-Oropeza v. U.S. Attorney General (2003)
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Lorillard v. Pons · National Labor Relations Board v. Gullett Gin Co. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Phinpathya
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strong applicant might have a qualifying child with . . . compelling special needs in school,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Factors relating to the applicant himself or herself can only be considered insofar as they may affect the hardship to a qualifying relative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“substantially beyond that which would ordinarily be expected to result from [a parent's] departure.”
2 later decisions 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.