Khan v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.3d 31 · 2007
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey (2008), Gui Yin Liu v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2007)
16 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. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 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 and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice · Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice · Kaur v. Board of Immigration Appeals · Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agency applied an erroneous legal standard in making a discretionary determination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alom v. Whitaker“constitutional claims or questions of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alom v. Whitaker
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.