Palmer v. Reddy’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 463 · 1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2024
4 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
Relies on 239 F. Supp. 531 - Nation v. Esperdy · 270 F. Supp. 516 - Andrade 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stepchild,” as that term was defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (b)(1)(B), by imposing certain conditions to the grants of visa preference to stepchildren. Id. at 464 . The Ninth Circtdt concluded that the conditions imposed by the INS were not authorized by statute, stating that “[plrevious decisions have exhaustively studied the legislative history of the statute and concluded that visa preference is available to stepchildren without further qualification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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