Bonilla v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.3d 72 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2026
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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States · Melencio Legui Lim v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Li v. Attorney General of the United States · Albathani 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the BIA does not consider an IJ's alternative ground for denying relief, that ground is not before us.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e examine the agency's findings of fact under the substantial evidence standard, upholding its factual findings so long as they are 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]embership in a particular social group.”
3 later decisions 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.