Joseph v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 113 · 1982
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Tongatapu Woodcraft Hawaii, Ltd. v. Feldman (1984), El-Khader v. Monica (2004)
21 federal appellate · 2 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 Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Roberts · Song Jook Suh v. George K. Rosenberg, District Director, Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kam Ng v. Pilliod · Menezes v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An initial approval of a visa `petition does not alone give the beneficiary of the petition an immediate right to an immigrant visa.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is no evidence to support the decision or if the decision was based on an improper understanding of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for what he deems to be good and sufficient cause.”
1 later decision 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.