Dacosta v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.3d 45 · 2006
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Kandamar v. Gonzales (2006), Singh v. Gonzales (2006)
19 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252B (§ 242b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Bocova v. Gonzales · Succar v. Ashcroft · KASINGA
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he filing of a motion to reopen with the BIA is not a vehicle for trying an issue, but is merely a request for the opportunity to try it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rumierz v. Gonzales“could not `retroactively nullify' [the petitioner's] previous violation of the terms of [a voluntary departure] order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singh v. Gonzales“A due process claim requires that a cognizable liberty or property interest be at stake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kandamar 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.