CERNA’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Iturribarria v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003), Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice (2001)
18 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. § 1101 (§ 101 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Udall v. Tallman · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · White v. United States
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to reconsider asserts that at the time of the Board's previous decision an error was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“questions the Board's decision for alleged errors in appraising the facts and the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not simply the specific aspect of the order that was challenged on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.