Arriaga v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 219 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Dickerson ex rel. Davison v. Napolitano (2010), United States v. Farhane (2011)
15 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2261A · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Taylor v. United States · United States v. Salerno · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent contrary Congressional intent, federal statutes are not to be construed so that their application is dependent on state law”); United States v. Tremble, 933 F.2d 925, 929 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 928 , 112 S.Ct. 346 , 116 L.Ed.2d 285 (1991) (same in case construing 21 U.S.C. §§ 960 (b)(2), 962(b)); United States v. Palmer, 871 F.2d 1202, 1205 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 890 , 110 S.Ct. 233 , 107 L.Ed.2d 185 (1989) (”
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.