Maryam v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.3d 60 · 2005
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2025
6 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 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Ravindran v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Meguenine v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · De Xin Wang v. Ashcroft · Debab v. Immigration & Naturalization Services
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has discretion to deny a motion to reopen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rumierz 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.