Guchshenkov v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

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26 federal appellate ·

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

1. “We are mindful that immigration judges, and the members of the Board of Immigration Appeals, have heavy caseloads. The same is true, however, of federal district judges, and we have never heard it argued that busy judges should be excused from having to deliver reasoned judgments because they are too busy to think.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ming Shi Xue v. Board of Immigration Appeals

2. “A remand is required because the immigration judge's analysis of their application is unreasoned. She `determined that the respondent is basically credible; however, his testimony is not inherently persuasive.' We do not understand what this means.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Diallo v. Ashcroft

3. “The two cases under review, like the other cases in which we have reversed the board of late, are not so difficult that it is unreasonable for a reviewing court to expect and require reasoned judgments at the administrative level.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service