Bolanos v. Kiley’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 1023 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999 · most notably Castaneda v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994), Burrafato v. United States Department of State (1975)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Application of Fre Le Poole Griffiths for Admission to the Bar · Jay v. Boyd
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.
“would be an abuse of discretion if it were made without a rational explanation, inexplicably departed from established policies, or rested on an impermissible basis such as an invidious discrimination against a particular race or group, or, in Judge Learned Hand’s words, on other ‘considerations that Congress could not have intended to make relevant.’ United States ex rel. Kaloudis v. Shaughnessy, supra, 180 F.2d [489] at 491. [2d Cir. 1950]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he refusal of the District Director to extend the date for . . . voluntary departure is . . . to be viewed under the usual test of abuse of discretion.”
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.