Ahmed v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.3d 247 · 2004
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Liu v. Gonzales (2006), Calle v. U.S. Attorney General (2007)
18 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 Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Feingold v. New York · Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency · Virgin Atlantic Airways, Ltd. v. National Mediation Board · Sierra On-Line, Inc. v. Phoenix Software, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t makes no sense for the party to forgo an appeal and instead file a motion for reconsideration, especially since review of the denial of a motion for reconsideration is highly deferential.... Since an appellate court is more likely to correct an error than the tribunal that made the error is (human nature being what it is), it does not make any sense to forgo an appeal in favor of a motion for reconsideration in a pure rehash case such as this.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shaohua He v. Holder“[l]ike any tribunal ... can reconsider its decisions within a reasonable time even if no one asks it to and there has been no change in law or other compelling ground for reconsideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guevara v. Gonzales“[r]econsideration is not an appropriate forum for rehashing previously rejected arguments or arguing matters that could have been heard during the pendency of the previous motion.”
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.