De Acosta v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.3d 16 · 2009
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2023
3 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. § 1225 (§ 235 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. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Zannino · Quevedo v. Ashcroft · Ramchandani v. Gonzales · Syed v. Ashcroft · Echevarría v. Keisler
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a process whereby certain aliens physically present in the United States may obtain permanent resident status . . . without leaving the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“asking whether the BIA's determination is 'supported by reasonable, substantial and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
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.