Santana v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.3d 237 · 2009
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2021
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. § 1101 (§ 101 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 Dacosta v. Gonzales · Teng v. Mukasey · Echevarría v. Keisler · Nadal-Ginard v. Holder · De Acosta v. Holder
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [petitioners'] argument that this record evidence cannot be relied upon to deny them grandfathering amounts to an attempt to shift their burden of establishing eligibility for grandfathering to one requiring the agency to disprove eligibility for grandfathering. As we have said, the burden was the petitioners' to bear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a process whereby certain aliens physically present in the United States may obtain permanent resident status . . . without leaving the United States.”
1 later decision 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.