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610 F.3d 1 · 2010

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
December 2024
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice · Kucana v. Holder · Daneshvar v. Ashcroft · Zheng Zheng v. Gonzales

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A 'material error of law automatically constitutes an abuse of discretion.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the BIA must . . . make certain that [the petitioner] receives the full benefit of the administrative process that Congress has elected to provide for [him]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “courts should not decide constitutional issues when this can be avoided”
    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.