Damon v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.3d 1084 · 2004
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hasan v. Ashcroft (2004), Nakamoto v. Ashcroft (2004)
25 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1186 · 8 U.S.C. § 1186A (§ 216 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Satnam Singh-Kaur Hari Singh v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Andaranik Bandari v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Bark v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Paramasamy 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this standard, we must affirm unless the evidence is so compelling that no reasonable fact-finder could fail to find the facts were as [Smolniakova] alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Attorney General, in the Attorney General's discretion, may remove the conditional basis ....”
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.