Amarante v. Rosenberg’s Empirical Analysis
326 F.2d 58 · 1964
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Agyeman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2002), Tongatapu Woodcraft Hawaii, Ltd. v. Feldman (1984)
28 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1155 (§ 205 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1204 (§ 224 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))
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the alien makes an application for such adjustment, (2) the alien is eligible to receive an immigrant visa and is admissible to the United States for permanent residence, and (3) an immigrant visa is immediately available to him at the time his application is approved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alien seeks an adjustment of his status by the Attorney General under section 245, the Attorney General performs the same functions as does a consular officer when an alien is seeking to enter the country and applies for a nouquota visa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. WEST“[a]n alien seeking to adjust his status to that of a permanent resident is assimilated to the position of an alien seeking to enter the United States for permanent residence.”
1 later decision 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.