Itani v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.3d 1213 · 2002
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Navarro-Lopez v. Gonzales (2007), Alim v. Gonzales (2006)
33 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Branzburg v. Hayes · Fedaa al Najjar Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Attorney General US Department of Justice · Roberts v. United States · Dirks v. Securities & Exchange Commission · United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a crime involves the depravity or fraud necessary to be one of moral turpitude depends upon the inherent nature of the offense, as defined in the relevant statute, rather than the circumstances surrounding a defendant's particular conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow men, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man.”
2 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.