Kam Ng v. Pilliod’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.2d 207 · 1960
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Garcia-Mir v. Smith (1985), Abdi v. U.S. Attorney General (2005)
39 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
Relies on Jay v. Boyd · United States Ex Rel. Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy · United ex rel. Kaloudis v. Shaughnessy · Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial review of discretionary administrative action is limited to the questions of whether the applicant has been accorded procedural due process and whether the decision has been reached in accordance with the applicable rules of law. Furthermore, the inquiry goes to the question whether or not there has been an exercise of administrative discretion and, if so, whether or not the manner of exercise has been arbitrary or capricious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.