Fano v. B O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 1262 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Moosa v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1999), Tefel v. Reno (1999)
28 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Morton v. Ruiz · Schweiker v. Hansen
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“they are not an exercise of delegated legislative power and do not purport to be anything other than internal house-keeping measures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Alphonso Jackson, Etc., Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Housing Authority of New Orleans, Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Housing Authority of New Orleans, an Agency of the State of Louisiana, Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Historic Restoration, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee · Davis Mountains Trans-Pecos Heritage Ass'n v. Federal Aviation Administration“party must allege more than mere negligence, delay, inaction, or failure to follow an internal agency guideline.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a party seeking to estop the government bears a quite heavy burden”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.