Rosenberg v. Yee Chien Woo’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic (1984), Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States (2001)
22 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedYee Chien Woo v. George K. Rosenberg, District Director, Immigration and Naturalizationservice (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Tilton v. Richardson · Colombo v. New York · Yee Chien Woo v. George K. Rosenberg, District Director, Immigration and Naturalizationservice · Shen 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: 42 (I)t is not irrelevant. It is one of the factors which the Immigration and Naturalization Service must take into account to determine whether a refugee seeks asylum in this country as a consequence of his flight to avoid persecution. The District Director applied the correct legal standard when he determined that § 203(a)(7) requires that”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the physical presence must be one which is reasonably proximate to the flight and not one following a flight remote in point of time or interrupted by intervening residence in a third country reasonably constituting a termination of the original flight in search of refuge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both the terms `firmly resettled' and `fled' are closely related to the central theme of all 23 years of refugee legislation—the creation of a haven for the world's homeless people.”
4 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.