Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 34 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 739 later decisions (108 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Descamps v. United States (2013), 195 L. Ed. 2d 604 - Mathis v. United States (2016)
223 federal appellate · 34 district · 16 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCarachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3559 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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))
Relies on Almendarez-Torres v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Leocal v. Ashcroft · Lopez v. Gonzales · United States v. LaBonte
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 739 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person who stands convicted of an offense under this part shall be sentenced to increased punishment by reason of one or more prior convictions, unless before .trial, or before entry of a plea of guilty, the United States attorney files an information with the court (and serves a copy of such information on the person or counsel for the person) stating in writing the previous convictions to be relied upon.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the text of the INA ... indicates that we are to look to the conviction itself as our starting place”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not been convicted of any aggravated felony.”
5 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.