Brown v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

360 F.3d 346 · 2004

Citation profile

cited by 50 later decisions

March 2014

most recently cited

26 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229 (§ 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1362 (§ 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Reno v. Flores · National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co.

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“On March 1, 2003, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was reconstituted as the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, both within the Department of Homeland Security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. Lewis v. Gonzales
“[W]e agree with the Fifth Circuit that `[t]here is no requirement, either statutory or constitutional, that all possible defenses or collateral remedies be explained' to the alien against whom the government is proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Reid v. Gonzales
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any effective date), the term [`aggravated felony'] applies regardless of whether the conviction was entered before, on, or after [September 30, 1996].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. Moreno-Bravo 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.