Wolf v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 249 · 1956
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Katsis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1993), Jose Edmund Santos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Jose Roberto Murillos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1967)
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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 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. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · United States v. Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Jersey City · Marcello v. Bonds · United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the denial of discretionary relief was arbitrary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fugiani v. Barber“when there has been a clear abuse of discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fugiani v. Barber
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.