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997 F.2d 1199 · 1993

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
May 2013
most recently cited

45 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Yepes-Prado v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1993), MONREAL (2001)

45 federal appellate ·

460199320002010decided

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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · Mission Insurance v. United States · Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Becerra-Jimenez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cordoba-Chaves 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the social and humane considerations in the alien's favor against any adverse factors that demonstrate his or her undesirability as a permanent resident in the United States.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[w]hen the potential hardships the alien may encounter are the same faced by any alien to be deported, the 'extreme hardship' standard has not been met.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “'a reviewing court to perceive that it has heard and thought and not merely reacted.'”
    5 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.