GUTIERREZ’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Mickeviciute v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003), Ramirez-Alejandre v. Ashcroft (2003)
12 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. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The administrative closing of a case does not result in a final [deportation] order.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)). In light of our disposition of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chaidez v. Gonzales“a case may not be administratively closed if opposed by either of the parties,”
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.