Fesseha v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
333 F.3d 13 · 2003
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Zheng v. U.S. Attorney General (2006), Laurent v. Ashcroft (2004)
49 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Aguilar-Solis 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establish `a prima facie case for the underlying substantive relief sought,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Board has discretion to deny a motion to reopen even if the party moving has made out a prima facie case for relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“introduce `previously unavailable, material evidence.'”
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.