Patel v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.3d 216 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Khalili v. Holder (2009), Hachem v. Holder (2011)
8 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. § 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 Guang Run Yu v. Ashcroft · Gilaj v. Gonzales · Ouda v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Carlos Huicochea-Gomez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ali v. Ashcroft
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no court shall have jurisdiction to review ... any judgment regarding the granting of relief under section .,. 1229c,” which pertains to voluntary departure. Id. at § 1229c. However, as the government concedes, we retain jurisdiction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reyna v. Lynch
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.