Ablett v. Brownell’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 625 · 1957
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Fedorenko v. United States (1981), Jean-Louis v. Attorney General of the United States (2009)
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1181 (§ 211 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · United States v. Illinois Central Railroad · Barber v. Gonzales · Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America v. Fairlawn Meats, Inc. · Pino v. Landon
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, we must conclude that the plaintiff's false statement that he had never been convicted of any offense was a material misrepresentation, with the result that the visa obtained thereby * * * was invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calvillo v. Robinson“[n]o immigrant shall be admitted to the United States unless he (1) has an unexpired immigration visa. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]etty theft [is] a crime which does involve moral turpitude within the meaning of the immigration laws.”
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.