Fequiere v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.3d 1325 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) An official record of judgment and conviction. 2) An official record of plea, verdict, and sentence. 3) A docket entry from court records that indicates the existence of the conviction. 4) Official minutes of a court proceeding or a transcript of a court hearing in which the court takes notice of the existence of the conviction. 5) An abstract of a record of conviction prepared by the court in which the conviction was entered, or by a State official associated with the State’s repository of criminal justice records, that indicates the charge or section of law violated, the disposition of the case, the existence and date of conviction, and the sentence. 6) Any document or record prepared by, or under the direction of, the court in which the conviction was entered that indicates the existence of a conviction. 7) Any document or record attesting to the conviction that is maintained by an official of a State or Federal penal institution, which is the basis for that institution’s authority to assume custody of the individual named in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute merely says that such forms `shall constitute proof of a criminal conviction,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Okeke v. Gonzales“[o]ther forms of proof will suffice if `probative.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Okeke v. Gonzales
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.