Rogers v. Quan’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2004 · most notably Leng May Ma v. Barber (1958), Siu Fung Luk v. Rosenberg (1969)
25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedQuan v. Brownell (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Leng May Ma v. Barber · McKinney v. Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad · Association of Lithuanian Workers v. Brownell · Quan v. Brownell
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We doubt that the Congress intended the mere fact of delay to improve an alien's status from that of one seeking admission to that of one legally considered within the United States.”
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.