Yan Chen v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.3d 268 · 2005
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,843 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Zehatye v. Gonzales (2006), Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey (2008)
79 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Chen v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
Cited together with Paul v. Gonzales · Zhang v. Gonzales · Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Weng v. Holder
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 1,843 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“becomes the basis for judicial review of the decision of which the alien is complaining.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable, substantial and probative evidence in the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the BIA adopts the decision of the IJ and merely supplements the IJ's decision,”
2 later decisions 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.