Pilch v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
353 F.3d 585 · 2003
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Ali v. Gonzales (2006), Subhan v. Ashcroft (2004)
25 federal appellate ·
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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Calderon v. Thompson · Yang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Terrazas-Garcia · Calle-Vujiles v. Ashcroft · Nwaokolo 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The thing under review is the agency's final decision, not the language of its opinion; and if the decision is to withhold certain discretionary remedies, that's the end.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a discretionary decision that is unreviewable . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n an attempt at disguise, captioned [a successive motion to reopen] as a motion asking the Board to act sua sponte—but, of course, if reopening were to occur in response to a motion, it could not have been sua sponte.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guevara 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.