Celaj v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Mikhailevitch v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Klawitter v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Spencer Enterprises, Inc. v. United States · Thornton v. Southwest Detroit Hospital
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to the initial question of whether the alien committed a serious crime . . . [,] we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's discretionary determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the discretion of the Attorney General”
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.