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← 855 FSUPP 4 - Lin v. Meissner

Lin v. Meissner’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
October 2005
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Kissinger v. Halperin · Woods v. Texas · United Steelworkers of America v. Marshall · National Labor Relations Board Union v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he status of an alien who was inspected and admitted or paroled . . . may be adjusted by the Attorney General, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the Order did not operate to grant legal immigration status to PRC nationals who did not have such status in the first place”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “reentry to the Unites States in the same status such PRC nationals had upon departure.”
    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.