Mahmood v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.3d 466 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Pllumi v. Attorney General of the United States (2011), Bonilla v. Lynch (2016)
15 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. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Ali v. Gonzales · Kaur v. Board of Immigration Appeals · Dada v. Mukasey · Thapa v. Gonzales · Wala 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the Agency may have declined to exercise its sua sponte authority because it misperceived the legal background and thought, incorrectly, that a reopening would necessarily fail, remand to the Agency for reconsideration in view of the correct law is appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Barr“or the IJ, if that is the most appropriate decision-maker in the first instance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gao v. Sessions
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.