Saxbe v. Bustos’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman (1975), International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel (1979)
125 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Leary v. United States · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Zuber v. Allen · Sanford's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This longstanding administrative construction is entitled to great weight, particularly when, as here, Congress has revisited the Act and left the practice untouched.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the status of having been lawfully accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with the immigration laws, such status not having changed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pascual v. Carroll · HUANG“an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning ... who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform temporary services or labor, if unemployed persons capable of performing such service or labor cannot be found in this country....”
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.