Ali v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 737 · 2008
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Sessions v. Dimaya (2018), Marmolejo-Campos v. Holder (2009)
29 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 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · United States v. Mead Corp.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) An official record of judgment and conviction. (ii) An official record of plea, verdict, and sentence. (iii) A docket entry from court records that indicates the existence of the conviction. (iv) Official minutes of a court proceeding or a transcript of a court hearing in which the court takes notice of the existence of the conviction. (v) An abstract of a record of conviction prepared by the court in which the conviction was entered, or by a State official associated with the State’s repository of criminal justice records, that indicates the charge or section of law violated, the disposition of the case, the existence and date of conviction, and the sentence. (vi) Any document or record prepared by, or under the direction of, the court in which the conviction was entered that indicates the existence of a conviction. (vii) Any document or record attesting to the conviction that is maintained by an official of a State or Federal penal institution, which is the basis for that institution’s authority to assume custody of the individual named in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“additional evidence may be taken by the immigration judge when necessary,” Ali, 521 F.3d at 742 (citing In re Babaisakov, 24 I. & N. Dec. 306 (2007)), even”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kawashima v. Mukasey“When Congress leaves an administrative agency with discretion to resolve a statutory ambiguity, judicial review is deferential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.