COELHO’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
50 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Fedaa al Najjar Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Attorney General US Department of Justice (2001), Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey (2008)
50 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Taylor v. Illinois · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Rios-Pineda
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the new evidence [offered] would likely change the result in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a motion to remand is really in the nature of a motion to reopen or a motion to reconsider, it must comply with the substantive requirements for such motions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could not by the exercise of due diligence have been discovered earlier....”
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.