Mejia v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.3d 873 · 2002
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Iturribarria v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003), Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005)
28 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Martinez-Serrano v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sangha v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Oscar Socop-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Melencio Legui Lim v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The BIA does not have the discretion to misapply the law, and it abuses its discretion when it does.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although de novo review applies to the BIA's determination of purely legal questions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's (”
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.