Swaby v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.3d 156 · 2004
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Reid (2006), Marrero Pichardo v. Ashcroft (2004)
39 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 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. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Spencer v. Kemna · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Roldan v. Racette
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not detrimentally rely on the availability of § 212(c) relief”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must show some `collateral consequence' ... meaning `some concrete and continuing injury other than the now-ended [threat of removal]' to establish a live case or controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kamagate v. Ashcroft“[t]he Attorney General may cancel removal in the case of an alien who is inadmissible ... if the alien — ... (3) has not been convicted of any aggravated felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kamagate v. Ashcroft
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.