Williams v. Sahli’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 228 · 1959
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1982
7 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. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Jay v. Boyd · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · National Theatres Corp. v. Bertha Building Corp. · United States Ex Rel. Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy · 145 F. Supp. 567 - Williams v. Butterfield
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant was not entitled to suspension of his deportation as a matter of right. It was solely within the discretion of the Board. Section 244, Immigration & Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1254, United States ex rel. Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy, 1957, 353 U.S. 72 , 77, 77 S.Ct. 618, 1 L.Ed.2d 652; Jay v. Boyd, 1956, 351 U.S. 345 , 76 S.Ct. 919, 100 L.Ed. 1242. 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Sahli
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.