Lopez-Chavez v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
383 F.3d 650 · 2004
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Bocova v. Gonzales (2005), Garfias-Rodriguez v. Holder (2012)
33 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
Relies on Desta v. Ashcroft · Ngarurih v. Ashcroft · Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Garcia v. Ashcroft · Rife v. Ashcroft
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voluntary departure is an alternative to removal (as deportation is now called) that the immigration service may grant in its discretion. An alien who has been granted this privilege is entitled to leave the country at her own expense within a certain period of time (usually up to 60 days). For the government, voluntary departure expedites and reduces the cost of removal. For aliens, voluntary departure is desirable because it allows them to choose their own destination points, to put their affairs in order without fear of being taken into custody at any time, to avoid the stigma and various penalties associated with forced removals (including extended detention while the government procures the necessary travel documents and ineligibility for readmission for a period of five or ten years), and it facilitates the possibility of return to the United States, for example, by adjustment of status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it allows them to choose their own destination points, to put their affairs in order without fear of being taken into custody at any time, to avoid the stigma and various penalties associated with forced removals (including extended detention while the government procures the necessary travel documents and ineligibility for readmission for a period of five or ten years, see 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(9)(A)), and it facilitates the possibility of return to the United States, for example, by adjustment of status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thapa v. Gonzales“No court shall have jurisdiction over an appeal from denial of a request for an order of voluntary departure . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vidal 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.