Rioja v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.3d 514 · 2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
6 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 Townsend v. U.S. Department of Justice Immigration & Naturalization Service · Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. v. Crisp · Medrano-Villatoro 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he party concerned indicates on Form EOIR-26 or Form EOIR-29 that he or she will file a brief or statement in support of the appeal and, thereafter, does not file such brief or statement, or reasonably explain his or her failure to do so, within the time set for filing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The BIA was within its statutorily designated discretion to summarily dismiss Rioja's appeal after he indicated on the notice of appeal form that a separate brief or statement would be filed and then failed to submit such brief or statement before the filing deadline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kokar v. Gonzales
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.