Knapik v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.3d 84 · 2004
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Gill v. Immigration & Naturalization Services (2005), Marmolejo-Campos v. Holder (2009)
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Jordan v. De George · Sandoval v. Reno · Jean Patrick Michel v. Immigration and 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct that is inherently base, vile, or depraved, contrary to the accepted rules of morality and the duties owed other persons, either individually or to society in general”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he concept of an attempted recklessness crime is nonsensical.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in determining what the elements are of a particular criminal statute deemed to implicate moral turpitude, we do not defer to the BIA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.