Balani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 1157 · 1982
Citation profile
123 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Rios-Pineda (1985), Denko v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003)
123 federal appellate ·
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 O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · Wisconsin v. Illinois · Lewis v. Martin · In re Josephson
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon a weighing of the relevant factors.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was made without a rational explanation, inexplicably departed from established policies, or rested on an impermissible basis such as invidious discrimination against a particular race or group.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person whose deportation would, in the opinion of the Attorney General, result in extreme hardship to the alien or to his spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.”
3 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.