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545 F.3d 229 · 2008

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
August 2022
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 5 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Gonzalez v. Secretary of Department of HomeLand Security (2012), Conyers v. Rossides (2009)

9 federal appellate · 5 district ·

240200820102020decided

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 6 U.S.C. § 202 · 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. § 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1408 (§ 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1421 (§ 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1429 (§ 318 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. · Patane v. Clark · Fama v. Commissioner of Correctional Services · Shomberg v. United States · Abimbola v. Ashcroft

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[N]o petition for naturalization shall be finally heard by a naturalization court if there is pending against the petitioner a deportation proceeding pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued under the provisions of this or any other Act ....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[N]o application for naturalization shall be considered by the Attorney General if there is pending against the applicant a removal proceeding pursuant to a warrant of arrest....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “has jurisdiction over the matter and may either determine the matter or remand the matter, with appropriate instructions, to [USCIS] to determine the matter.”
    2 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.