Adams v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 643 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Yusupov v. Attorney General of the United States (2008), Kandamar v. Gonzales (2006)
10 federal appellate · 8 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 22 U.S.C. § 2691 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 104 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1181 (§ 211 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1361 (§ 291 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Brandenburg v. Ohio · Houltin v. United States · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“long recognized the power to expel or exclude aliens as a fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government's political departments largely immune from judicial control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look behind the exercise of that discretion, nor test it by balancing its justification against the First Amendment interests of those who seek personal communication with the applicant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nowhere is the scope of judicial inquiry more limited than in the area of immigration legislation”
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.