24 I. & N. Dec. 355 - BRIONES’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024), Garfias-Rodriguez v. Holder (2012)
33 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 6 U.S.C. § 557 · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225A (§ 235a 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. § 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Russello v. United States · Lamie v. United States Trustee
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ... an alien physically present in the United States— (A) who— (i) entered the United States without inspection; ... may apply to the Attorney General for the adjustment of his or her status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence ... (2) Upon receipt of such an application ... the Attorney General may adjust the status of the alien to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence if— (A) the alien is eligible to receive an immigrant visa and is admissible to the United States for permanent residence; and (B) an immigrant visa is immediately available to the alien at the time the application is filed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In our view, section [1255® ] adjustment remains available to aliens inadmissible under section [1182(a)(6)(A)© ] only because a contrary interpretation would render the language of section [1255© ] so internally contradictory as to effectively vitiate the statute, an absurd result that Congress is presumed not to have intended.”
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.