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28 I. & N. Dec. 169 - MELGAR’s Empirical Analysis

2020

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1324D (§ 274d of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Ibarra v. Holder

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. “reasonable probability that, but for his attorney's mistakes,”
    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.