Nakamoto v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
363 F.3d 874 · 2004
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Ramadan v. Gonzales (2007), Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey (2008)
21 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 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. § 1158 (§ 208 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. § 1226 (§ 236 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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft · Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft · Noel v. Hall · Baires 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o court shall have jurisdiction to review . . . any decision of the Attorney General the authority for which is specified . . . to be in the discretion to the Attorney General. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Attorney General cannot legally make a judgment [about whether a petitioner's marriage was in good faith] solely according to the dictates of his or her conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a petitioner committed marriage fraud is not a decision the authority for which is specified under the INA to be entirely discretionary”
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.