Kwan v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 479 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2005
6 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 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Briggs Transportation Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Nance v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified ... and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and (B) the employment of such aliens will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of the workers in the United States similarly employed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“able, willing, qualified, ... and available”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. McLaughlin“is entitled to a high degree of deference”
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.