Dawoud v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 31 · 2009
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · LOZADA · Lozada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · VELARDE
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a 'sparingly invoked doctrine' that is 'used to excuse a party's failure to take an action in a timely manner, where such failure was caused by circumstances that are out of his hands.'”
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.