Firestone v. Howerton’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 317 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Cuevas-Gaspar v. Gonzales (2005), Barnson v. United States (1987)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1259 (§ 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kleindienst v. Mandel · Galvan v. Press · Ng Fung Ho v. White · Chae Chan Ping v. United States · Leng May Ma v. Barber
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refers to the application of eligibility criteria for admission and to differences in burden of proof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“involuntary, or is or was solely when under sixteen years of age, by operation of law, or for purposes of obtaining employment, food rations, or other essentials of living and where necessary for such purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the well known maxim of statutory construction that, when the same terms are used in different sections of a statute, they receive the same meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.