Sunoto v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.3d 56 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Massis v. Mukasey (2008), Chhay v. Mukasey (2008)
15 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 He Chun Chen v. Ashcroft · Olujoke v. Gonzáles · Silva v. Gonzales · Berrio-Barrera v. Gonzales · Sayyah v. Farquharson
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.
“the BIA adopts and affirms an IJ's decision, we review the IJ's decision 'to the extent of the adoption, and the BIA's decision as to [any] additional ground.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insufficiently developed before the BIA,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we will only disturb the [A]gency's findings if, in reviewing the record as a whole, 'any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.'”
1 later decision 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.