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425 F.3d 417 · 2005

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
February 2012
most recently cited

8 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Zadvydas v. Davis

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “cannot uphold credibility assessments unmoored from the record, based on nothing but the IJ's personal speculation or conjecture.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “we will not automatically yield to the immigration judge's conclusions when they are drawn from insufficient or incomplete evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “we are not inclined to defer to [that finding] on this remaining sixth ground alone”
    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.