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← 194 F. Supp. 2d 209 - Powell v. Ashcroft

194 F. Supp. 2d 209 - Powell v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
January 2019
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Zadvydas v. Davis · Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairss v. Klamath Water Users Protective Association · 122 F. Supp. 2d 213 - Sango-Dema v. District Director, 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The removal period shall be extended beyond a period of 90 days and the alien may remain in detention during such extended period if the alien fails or refuses to make timely application in good faith for travel or other documents necessary to the alien’s departure or conspires or acts to prevent the alien’s removal subject to an order of removal.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Pelich v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Singh v. Whitaker
  2. “has repeatedly provided the INS with inconsistent information regarding his identity, and these inconsistencies have demonstrably hampered the INS in carrying out his removal”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ali v. Ashcroft · Ali v. Ashcroft
  3. “an alien may be held in confinement until it has been determined that there is no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ali v. Ashcroft · Ali v. Ashcroft

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.