Patel v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.3d 610 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mendoza-Lopez · Roldan v. Racette · Francisco Lara v. Em Trominski Janet Reno US Francisco Lara-Resendez · Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Doris Meisner · Mendez 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“additional legal arguments, a change of law, or an argument that was overlooked”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mungongo 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.