Medellin v. Bustos’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 795 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2009
7 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Castaneda-Gonzalez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Production Tool Corporation v. Employment and Training Administration · Wang v. Immigration and 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ulletins and interpretive rules of agency administrator while persuasive, are not controlling. We must resolve any conflict ... to give effect to the regulation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Salinas v. Rodriguez“the substitution of one alien on a labor certification for another alien if more than six months [had] elapsed since the original date of certification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kooritzky v. Reich
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.