Orelien v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.3d 67 · 2006
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Lopez de Hincapie v. Gonzales (2007), Raza v. Gonzales (2007)
29 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ravindran v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bocova v. Gonzales · Ranjit John Singh v. 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“government's unwillingness or inability to control private conduct”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Justo v. Sessions · Paye v. Garland“[w]e examine the agency's findings of fact under the substantial evidence standard, upholding its factual findings so long as they are 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“always implies some connection to governmental action or inaction, related to a protected ground . . . .”
3 later decisions 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.