Townsend v. U.S. Department of Justice Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 179 · 1986
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Lozada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1988), Kuang-Te Wang v. Ashcroft (2001)
55 federal appellate · 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. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Eluska v. Andrus · Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · HOLGUIN
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“male respondent has sufficiently established his 'well founded fear of persecution' according to present case law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n order of deportation ... shall not be reviewed by any court if the alien has not exhausted the administrative remedies available to him as of right under the immigration laws and regulations”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When exhaustion is statutorily mandated, the requirement is jurisdictional.”
4 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.