Fernandez v. Keisler’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.3d 337 · 2007
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Morales-Izquierdo v. Department of Homeland Security (2010), Beck v. McDonald (2017)
24 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 18 U.S.C. § 1958 · 18 U.S.C. § 2331 (Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2004) · 18 U.S.C. § 2332 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1408 (§ 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. v. Brand X Internet Services
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.
“lurk in the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as having been so decided as to constitute precedents.” Webster v. Fall, 266 U.S. 507, 511, 45 S.Ct. 148 , 69 L.Ed. 411 (1924); accord Fernandez v. Keisler, 502 F.3d 337 , 343 n. 2 (4th Cir.2007) (quoting Webster); United States v. Jones, 225 F.3d 468, 469 (4th Cir.2000) (citing Webster and stating that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exercise of statutory interpretation makes clear the court's view that the plain language of the statute was controlling and that there existed no room for contrary agency interpretation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“say in so many magic words that its holding is the only permissible interpretation of the statute in order for that holding to be binding on an agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.