Ghounem v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.3d 740 · 2004
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Sembiring v. Gonzales (2007), Lopes v. Gonzales (2006)
23 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 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. § 1252B (§ 242b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Salta v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · GRIJALVA · Loulou v. Ashcroft · Francisco Javier Nativi-Gomez v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States, American Immigration Law Foundation American Immigration Lawyers Association, Minnesota/dakotas, Iowa/nebraska, and Missouri/kansas Chapters, Amici on Behalf Of
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in person ... (or, if personal service is not practicable, through service by mail to the alien or to the alien’s counsel of record if any)....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haider v. Gonzales · Diaz v. Lynch“virtually without recourse to rebut the presumption of effective delivery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In cases where service of a notice of a deportation proceeding is sent by certified mail through the United States Postal Service and there is proof of attempted delivery and notification of certified mail, a strong presumption of effective service arises which only may be overcome by the affirmative defense of nondelivery or improper delivery by the Postal Service.”
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.