Billeke-Tolosa v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 708 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Marmolejo-Campos v. Holder (2009), Cisneros v. U.S. Attorney General (2008)
12 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 Fedaa al Najjar Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Attorney General US Department of Justice · Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Denko v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Wilson v. Commissioner of Social Security · Javier Bernal-Vallejo 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may review 'non-discretionary decisions that underlie determinations that are ultimately discretionary.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conviction or corroborating evidence of the allegations contained”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“elemental principal of administrative law that agencies are bound to follow their own regulations”). 3 . Although the argument is undeveloped, to the extent Abu Foul charges the IJ with an abuse of discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abu Foul v. Mukasey
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.