Icaza v. Shultz’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · Rusk v. Cort · Rogers v. Bellei
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he limitations period established by Congress in section ... 1503(a) would be empty of meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez v. Limon
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.