National Hand Tool Corp. v. Pasquarell’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 1472 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 federal appellate · 2 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 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 United States v. Garner · Sussex Engineering, Ltd. v. Montgomery · City of Austin, Texas, Bracken-Ridge Hospital v. Heckler · Valdez-Gaona v. Immigration & 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A denial by [the USCIS] of an application for a visa may be reversed only if the decision was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the applicant for a visa bears the burden of establishing eligibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entitled to considerable deference in its interpretation of the governing statute.”
2 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.