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617 F.3d 67 · 2010

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

22 federal appellate ·

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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1229B (§ 240a 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 Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice · Gui Yin Liu v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · MONREAL · United States v. Mariano · Mendez 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'claim of constitutional or legal error must at least be colorable .'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'[a] bare allegation of either a constitutional shortfall or legal error' will not suffice,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “matter of substance, not a function of labeling,”
    2 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.