Samirah v. J O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.3d 545 · 2003
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Khan v. Attorney General of the United States (2006), State v. Reid (2006)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Jones v. Cunningham · Aldinger v. Howard · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review ... any ... decision or action of the Attorney General the authority for which is specified under this subchapter to be in the discretion of the Attorney General, other than the granting of [asylum].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alien who is already in the United States but who also wants the assurance that he will be allowed to leave and return.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the heading of a section cannot limit the plain meaning of the text[,]”
1 later decision 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.