Abdi v. U.S. Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 1148 · 2005
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ali v. U.S. Attorney General (2006), Xue Xian Jiang v. U.S. Attorney General (2009)
15 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 Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Garcia-Mir v. Smith · Alexis Anin v. Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limited to determining whether there has been an exercise of administrative discretion and whether the matter of exercise has been arbitraiy or capricious.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for an abuse of discretion.” Abdi v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 430 F.3d 1148, 1149 (11th Cir.2005).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion to reopen proceedings shall not be granted unless it appears to the [BIA] that evidence sought to be offered is material and was not available and could not have been discovered or presented at the former hearing . . . .”
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.