Hoodho v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.3d 184 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. Aguila-Montes De Oca (2011), Jackson v. Federal Express (2014)
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 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. · Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Judicial admissions are not evidence at all. Rather, they are formal concessions in the pleadings in the case or stipulations by a party or counsel that have the effect of withdrawing a fact from issue and dispensing wholly with the need for proof of the fact. Thus, a judicial admission, unless allowed by the court to be withdrawn, is conclusive in the case....””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The IJ did not have occasion to apply the modified categorical approach to [the alien’s] conviction ... because [the alien] conceded removability.... In so doing, [the alien] did not press the government to develop the record in support of an inquiry along the lines specified by the modified categorical approach, nor did [the alien] request that the IJ make such a determination. Indeed, his concession obviated the need for such efforts on the part of the government and the IJ.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We note that it is an open question whether a statute is divisible and therefore susceptible to the modified categorical approach when it encompasses both removable and non-removable offenses, but does not describe the removable offenses only in distinct subsections or elements of a disjunctive list.”). Indeed, the court has recently noted that it”
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.