Ekimian v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.3d 1153 · 2002
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 601 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ali v. Gonzales (2006), Toufighi v. Mukasey (2008)
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · William Marbury v. James Madison · Heckler v. Chaney · Oscar Socop-Gonzalez 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 601 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any time reopen or reconsider on its own motion any case in which it has rendered a decision,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he decision of the BIA whether to invoke its sua sponte authority is committed to its unfettered discretion. Therefore, the very nature of the claim renders it not subject to judicial review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so that a court would have no meaningful standard against which to review the agency's exercise of discretion.”
3 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.