Ruano v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
301 F.3d 1155 · 2002
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft (2003), Nahrvani v. Gonzales (2005)
20 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Melencio Legui Lim v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Rios v. Ashcroft · Ratnam v. Immigration & 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We've been observing that you are involved with the shit of a queer party as is UCN, we're giving you a time limit of 15 days so you get the hell out of here, you son of a bitch ... if you don't leave we'll kill you right away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Javhlan v. Holder“[being] followed by and narrowly escap[ing] four armed men trying to kill [him].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Javhlan v. Holder“multiple death threats at [his] home and place of business”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Javhlan v. Holder
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.