Urena-Tavarez v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.3d 154 · 2004
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Block v. Community Nutrition Institute · Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. MCorp Financial, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) Hardship waiver The Attorney General, in the Attorney General’s discretion, may remove the conditional basis of the permanent resident status for an alien who fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (1) if the alien demonstrates that— (B) the qualifying marriage was entered into in good faith by the alien spouse, but the qualifying marriage has been terminated (other than through the death of the spouse) and the alien was not at fault in failing to meet the requirements of paragraph (1)....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Randhawa v. Ashcroft · No. 05-2788“[t]he Attorney General, in the Attorney General's discretion, may remove the conditional basis of the permanent resident status for an alien. . . . The determination of what evidence is credible and the weight to be given that evidence shall be within the sole discretion of the Attorney General.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o court shall have jurisdiction to review ... any other decision or action of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority for which is specified under this subchapter to be in the discretion of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security.”
2 later decisions 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.