Desta v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.3d 1179 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Elzour v. Ashcroft (2004), Jaggernauth v. U.S. Attorney General (2005)
10 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
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett · Kapcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Woldemeskel 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ... • [BIA] may in any case arising under paragraph (b) of this section [dé-fining the BIA’s appellate jurisdiction] certify such case to the [BIA], The [BIA] in its discretion may review any such case by certification without regard to the [notice] provisions of § 1003.7 if it determines that the parties have already been given a fair opportunity to make representations before the [BIA] regarding the case....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahamat v. Ashcroft“An unchallenged ruling by the BIA on a motion to reconsider is final in that it is separately appealable. But it is not res judicata with respect to an issue pending on judicial review of the original decision of the BIA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case' that otherwise could not properly be heard”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahamat 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.