Dalton v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.3d 200 · 2001
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Leocal v. Ashcroft (2004), Gill v. Immigration & Naturalization Services (2005)
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 16 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · United States v. Dunn
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or (b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`only the minimum criminal conduct necessary to sustain a conviction under a given statute is relevant.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The categorical approach focuses on the intrinsic nature of the offense rather than on the factual circumstances surrounding any particular violation.”
4 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.