Whitehead v. Haig’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 115 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1481 (§ 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1501 (§ 358 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chin Chuck Ming v. Dulles · 407 F. Supp. 789 - Garcia-Sarquiz v. Saxbe · Ferretti v. Dulles · Linzalone v. Dulles
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person who is within the United States claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right or privilege by any department ... upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States, such person may institute an action under the provisions of section 2201 of Title 28 ... An action under this subsection may be instituted only within five years after the final administrative denial of such right or privilege ...””
3 later decisions 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.