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626 F.3d 907 · 2010

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
February 2026
most recently cited

17 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Califano v. Sanders · Heckler v. Chaney · Webster v. Doe

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

  1. “issue [of whether the court could review the BIA's decision to grant administrative closure] is not termed properly one of jurisdiction ... [it] is not a question of whether this court has the authority to review, but rather whether the lack of any 'judicially manageable’ standard, Heckler, 470 U.S. at 830 , 105 S.Ct. 1649 , makes any review within [the court’s] power, as a practical matter, impossible.”); Ochoa v. Holder, 604 F.3d 546 , 549 (8th Cir.2010) (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “involves a complicated balancing of a number of factors which are peculiarly within [the agency's] expertise.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

How this case has been treated — in progress

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