Ponce-Leiva v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 369 · 2003
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Borges v. Gonzales (2005), Tawadrus v. Ashcroft (2004)
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Ungar v. Sarafite · Reno v. Flores · Graham v. Richardson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza · Bridges v. Wixon
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question whether denial of a continuance in an immigration proceeding constitutes an abuse of discretion cannot be decided through the application of bright line rules; it must be resolved on a case by case basis according to the facts and circumstances of each case.” Baires v. INS, 856 F.2d 89, 91 (9th Cir.1988) (citation omitted). In this case, one of the circumstances which the immigration judge apparently factored into his decision to deny the continuance was the facial lack of merit in Ponce-Leiva’s application for asylum. This initial impression was borne out by the evidence presented at the hearing. It”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well-established that an alien at an immigration hearing has some form of right to counsel. It is equally well-settled, though, that 'there is no Sixth Amendment right to counsel in deportation hearings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the privilege of being represented, at no expense to the Government, by counsel of the alien's choosing who is authorized to practice in such proceedings.”
2 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.