Moin v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.3d 415 · 2003
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Alaka v. Attorney General of the United States (2006), Ahmed v. Gonzales (2006)
14 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Soadjede v. Ashcroft · Mikhael v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Albathani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Saxbe v. Bustos
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o qualify as a returning resident alien, an alien must have acquired lawful permanent resident status in accordance with our laws, must have retained that status from the time that [he] acquired it, and must be returning to an unrelinquished lawful permanent residence after a temporary visit abroad.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a permanent resident returns from a temporary visit abroad only when (a) the permanent resident’s visit is for a period relatively short, fixed by some early event, or (b) the permanent resident’s visit will terminate upon the occurrence of an event having a reasonable possibility of occurring within a relatively short period of time. If as in (b), the length of the visit is contingent upon the occurrence of an event and is not fixed in time and if the event does not occur within a relatively short period of time, the visit will be considered a temporary visit abroad only if the alien has a continuous, uninterrupted intention to return to the United States during the entirety of his visit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katebi v. Ashcroft“We appreciate the predicament which confronts immigrants who marry non-citizens abroad. Because temporary visas are often unavailable and processing marital visas may take years, they must choose to live apart or risk losing their permanent resident status.... Nevertheless, we must be guided by the totality of the record.... From that perspective, we cannot say that the evidence is so compelling in [the petitioner’s] favor that no reasonable person could have made the same findings and conclusions as the immigration judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lateef v. Holder
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.