Ashby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 555 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Ghassan v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1992), Gouveia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1992)
29 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
Relies on MARIN · Mantell v. United States Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service · Hernandez-cordero v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Perales v. Casillas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because section 212(c) does not provide for standards governing how the Board's discretion should be exercised, the Attorney General has unusually broad discretion in granting and denying waivers. Ashby v. INS, 961 F.2d 555 , 557 (5th Cir.1992). We limit our review to whether denial of a waiver was”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily [go] abroad ... and who are returning to a lawful unrelinquished domicile of seven consecutive years, may be admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“maintained a lawful unrelinquished domicile in the United States for seven consecutive years.”
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.