Khalili v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 429 · 2009
Citation profile
36 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Khozhaynova v. Holder (2011), Al-Ghorbani v. Holder (2009)
36 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. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 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 Weinberger v. Salfi · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Amaya-Artunduaga v. U.S. Attorney General · Pilica 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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“controlling unless 'plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.' " Auer v. Robbins , 519 U.S. 452 , 461, 117 S.Ct. 905 , 137 L.Ed.2d 79 (1997) (quoting Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council , 490 U.S. 332 , 359, 109 S.Ct. 1835 , 104 L.Ed.2d 351 (1989) ); see also Khalili , 557 F.3d at 435 ("The BIA's interpretation of the [INA] and regulations will be upheld unless the interpretation is arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the BIA reviews the immigration judge's decision and issues a separate opinion, rather than summarily affirming the immigration judge's decision, we review the BIA's decision as the final agency determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raja v. Sessions · K. H. v. Barr“were investigated by the police and the police took that investigation seriously, such that it could not be said that the government was unable or unwilling to control the [persecutors]”
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.