Rendon v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 967 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Padilla-Martinez v. Holder (2014), Robleto-Pastora v. Holder (2009)
9 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 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 United States v. Olano · Taylor v. United States · Barron v. Ashcroft · Lopez v. Gonzales · Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, under the phrase "illicit trafficking in a controlled substance," a state drug crime is an aggravated felony "if it contains a trafficking element." Second, under the phrase "including a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 924(c) of Title 18)," a state drug crime is an aggravated felony if it would be punishable as a felony under the federal drug laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The BIA is not required to anticipate objections that [the petitioner] utterly failed to make, and we lack jurisdiction to address them here.”); Cerezo v. Mukasey, 512 F.3d 1163 , 1165 n. 5 (9th Cir.2008) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“including a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 924(c) of Title 18),”
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.