24 I. & N. Dec. 785 - HASHMI’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Vahora v. Holder (2010), Malilla v. Holder (2011)
30 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. § 1151 (§ 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Subhan v. Ashcroft · Onyeme v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Morgan v. Gonzales · Abu-Khaliel v. Gonzales · Ilic-Lee v. Mukasey
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he DHS response to the motion; (2) whether the underlying vish petition is prima facie approvable; (3] the [respondents’] statutory eligibility for adjustment of status; (4) whether the [respondents’] application for adjustment merits a favorable exercise of discretion; and (5) the reason for the continuance and other procedural factors.”
3 later decisions 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.