Benslimane v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 federal appellate ·

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

1. “[T]he adjudication of these cases at the administrative level has fallen below the minimum standards of legal justice. Whether this is due to resource constraints or to other circumstances beyond the Board's and the Immigration Court's control, we do not know .... All that is clear is that it cannot be in the interest of the immigration authorities, the taxpayer, the federal judiciary, or citizens concerned with the effective enforcement of the nation's immigration laws for removal orders to be routinely nullified by the courts ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ming Shi Xue v. Board of Immigration Appeals · N'Diom v. Gonzales

2. “An immigration judge cannot be permitted, by arbitrarily denying a motion for a continuance without which the alien cannot establish a ground on which Congress has determined he is eligible to seek to remain in this country . . . to thwart the congressional design.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pede v. Gonzales · Boyanivskyy v. Gonzales

3. “The tone, the tenor, the disparagement, and the sarcasm of the IJ seem more appropriate to a court television show than a federal court proceeding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zehatye v. Gonzales · Naing Tun v. Gonzales