Firstland International, Inc. v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.3d 127 · 2004
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Sharkey v. Quarantillo (2008), ANA International Inc. v. Way (2004)
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Elkins v. Moreno · Malik v. Meissner · Evangelista v. Ashcroft · Tongatapu Woodcraft Hawaii, Ltd. v. Feldman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the substance of the decision that there should be a revocation is committed to the discretion of the Attorney General, section 1155 [also] establishes mandatory notice requirements that must be met in order for the revocation to be effective.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary . . . may, at any time, for what he deems to be good and sufficient cause, revoke the approval of any petition approved by him . . . .”
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.