Abebe v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.3d 1203 · 2009
Citation profile
43 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Halim v. Holder (2009), Ahmed v. Holder (2009)
43 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. § 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. § 1251 (§ 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Reed v. Reed · Flemming v. Nestor
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be deemed to have exhausted only those issues he raised and argued in his brief before the BIA” (emphasis added)). 5 . We note that some circuits have held that issue exhaustion, as opposed to exhaustion of administrative remedies, is not a statutory jurisdictional requirement, but a judicially created case processing rule, allowing courts the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'Congress has particularly broad and sweeping powers when it comes to immigration, and is therefore entitled to an additional measure of deference when it legislates as to admission, exclusion, removal, naturalization or other matters pertaining to aliens.' ” Id. at 802-03 (quoting Abebe, 554 F.3d at 1206 , 2009 WL 50120 , at ). The extensive discussion of congressional intent in Lujan-Annendariz demonstrates our awareness of these”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation, and who are returning to a lawful unrelinquished domicile of seven consecutive years, may be admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General without regard to the provisions of [§ 212(a) ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.