Madany v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 1008 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Spencer Enterprises, Inc. v. United States (2003), Tongatapu Woodcraft Hawaii, Ltd. v. Feldman (1984)
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1155 (§ 205 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Roberts · Castaneda-Gonzalez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Joseph v. Landon · Haddon House Food Products, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e ... do not follow the ruling in Singh to the extent that it suggests that INS does not have primary authority for preference classification decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no doubt that the authority to make preference classification decisions rests with the INS.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for which a shortage of employable and willing persons exists in the United States.”
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.