Ablang v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 801 · 1995
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Miller v. Albright (1998), Taniguchi v. Schultz (2002)
26 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Powers v. Ohio · Mathews v. Diaz · Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facially legitimate and bona fide reason”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Although the decision to grant or deny declaratory relief ... is a matter initially committed to the discretion of the district court, on appeal we exercise our own 'sound discretion' to determine the propriety of the district court's grant or denial of declaratory relief.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The applicable law for transmitting citizenship to a child born abroad when one parent is a U.S. citizen is the statute that was in effect at the time of the child's birth.'”
2 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.