Coraggioso v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.3d 730 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Smriko v. Ashcroft (2004), Partyka v. Attorney General of the United States (2005)
12 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1151 (§ 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Jacobson · Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]liens who qualify, through random selection, for a visa [under the DV Program] shall remain eligible to receive such visa only through the end of the specific fiscal year for which they were selected.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a bit misleading. Selection of an applicant's petition does not ensure that he will in fact receive a visa, as the total number of lottery winners exceeds the number of Diversity Visas available under the program. Id. at 7 (stating that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The INS's failure to process [plaintiff's] application does not extend [plaintiff's] statutorily-limited period of eligibility for a diversity visa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mohamed 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.