Patel v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.3d 400 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Hargrove (2005), Ilic-Lee v. Mukasey (2007)
16 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Leocal v. Ashcroft · Demore District Director San Francisco District of Immigration and Naturalization Service et al. v. Kim · Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Crime of violence” means any of the following: murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, aggravated assault, forcible sex offenses, statutory rape, sexual abuse of a minor, robbery, arson, extortion, extortionate extension of credit, burglary of a dwelling, or any offense under federal, state, or local law that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“crime of violence.” Section 16(b) of title 18 defines the term as a felony that "by its nature [] involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question whether [an alien's] conviction renders him removable . . . is a non-discretionary, purely legal question; the Courts of Appeal ordinarily must review such questions de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanusi 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.