Chavarria v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 666 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1991), Carvajal-Munoz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1984)
24 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on McMullen v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Haitian Refugee Center v. Smith · Fleurinor 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the new mandatory language of section 243(h) justifies replacing the abuse-of-discretion standard with the substantial-evidence standard.”
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.