Butt v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.3d 130 · 2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2021
3 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Jacobson · Ci Pan v. United States Attorney General · Lendo v. Gonzales · Hadayat v. Gonzales
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The process through which an alien pursues employment-based adjustment of status is as follows: First, the aliens prospective employer must file an application for a labor certification. If the Department of Labor certifies the application, the alien’s prospective employer must then file a Form 1-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, accompanied by the Labor Certification. If the Petition is approved, the alien, who must be residing in the U.S., must file a Form I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] visa petition is meritorious in fact for purposes of grandfathering under 8 C.F.R. § 1245.10 if, based on the circumstances that existed at the time the petition was filed, the beneficiary of the petition qualified for the requested classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“requir[e] that, based on the facts as they exist at the time of filing, the application should be granted”
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.