Qian Gao v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 173 · 2007
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Wenqin Sun v. Mukasey (2009), United States v. Zedner (2008)
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
Relies on Wei Guang Wang v. Board of Immigration Appeals · Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States · Estelle v. Dorrough · Degen v. United States · Eisler v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Everyone understands that the government is overwhelmed with petitioners and procedures, and that it heavily relies on the word and voluntary compliance of numerous aliens within our borders. It is easy to game this system, but we should not treat disregard of government directives as a norm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bright v. Holder
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.