Waziri v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 55 · 1968
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1985), Chadha v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1980)
22 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 Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Constantinos Roumeliotis and Panayota Roumeliotis, His Wife v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Tai Mui v. Esperdy
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, at any time within five years after the status of a person has been otherwise adjusted under the provisions of section 1255 or 1259 of this title or any other provision of law to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that the person was not in fact eligible for such adjustment of status, the Attorney General shall rescind the action taken granting an adjustment of status to such person and cancelling deportation in the case of such person if that occurred and the person shall thereupon be subject to all provisions of this Act to the same extent as if the adjustment had not been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly [§ 1105a’s] objective of expedi-ti[ng the deportation of undesirable aliens by preventing successive dilatory appeals to various federal courts] would be thwarted if this court approved perfunctorily the deportation order while the district court reviewed the crucial underlying rescission order, and afterward this court reviewed on appeal the determination of the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baria v. Reno“If the objective of Woodby--that aliens not be deported unless the facts alleged by the government are found to be true by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence--is to be realized, then the Woodby standard of proof must apply in the rescission proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kim v. Meese
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.