Rivera v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 1271 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Rizk v. Holder (2011), Tekle v. Mukasey (2008)
9 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from California Northern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b 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 Desta v. Ashcroft · Molina-Estrada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Satnam Singh-Kaur Hari Singh v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Singh v. Ilchert · Turcios v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e treat the incorporated parts of the IJ's decision as the BIA's.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mairena v. Barr
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.