Soadjede v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.3d 830 · 2003
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 470 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft (2003), Dia v. Ashcroft (2003)
44 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Reginald R. Brinkmann, Jr. v. Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Abner · Abdulai v. Ashcroft · Mikhael 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 470 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determines that the result reached in the decision was correct; that any errors in the decision under review were harmless or nonmaterial; and that (A) the issue on appeal is squarely controlled by existing Board or federal court precedent and does not involve the application of precedent to a novel fact situation; or (B) the factual and legal questions raised on appeal are so insubstantial that three-Member review is not warranted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issues concerning the merits of his immigration appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paulos v. Ashcroft
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.