Borges v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.3d 398 · 2005
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Reyes Mata v. Lynch (2015), Fadiga v. Attorney General USA (2007)
27 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
Applies 6 U.S.C. § 271 · 8 U.S.C. § 1229A (§ 240 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1362 (§ 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Reno v. Flores · Iturribarria v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bridges v. Wixon
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It does not appear that the Third Circuit has previously addressed the issue of whether the 180-day period for filing a motion to reopen should be equitably tolled where the petitioner alleges that ineffective assistance of counsel caused the delay in filing such a motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been injured by fraud and remains in ignorance of it without any fault or want of diligence or care on his part, the bar of the statute does not begin to run until the fraud is discovered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahmood 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.