Mayo v. Schiltgen’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 177 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Witter v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1997), Menjivar v. Gonzales (2005)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1152 (§ 202 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc. · Castillo-Felix v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Patel v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ruangswang 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Shutting off the opportunity to come to the United States actually is a crushing deprivation to many immigrants. Very often it destroys the hopes and aspirations of a lifetime, and it frequently operates not only against the individual immediately but also bears heavily upon his family in and out of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayo v. Ashcroft“a reviewing court may not uphold an agency decision based on reasons not articulated by the agency itself in its decision.”
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.