Gerbier v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.3d 297 · 2002
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Lopez v. Gonzales (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (2010)
48 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Francis v. Franklin · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“illicit trafficking in a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of Title 21), including a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 924(c) of Title 18).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unlawful trading or dealing of a controlled substance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the BIA’s approach, a state drug conviction constitutes an “aggravated felony” under either of two routes. Under the first route, a felony state drug conviction is an “aggravated felony” under § 924(c)(2) if it contains a trafficking element. Under the second route, a state drug conviction, either a felony or a misdemeanor, is an “aggravated felony” if it would be punishable as a felony under the Controlled Substances Act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.