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627 F.3d 365 · 2010

Citation profile

73
cited by 73 later decisions
May 2021
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (§ 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1433 (§ 322 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams · Public Citizen v. United States Department of Justice · Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Miller v. Albright

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

  1. “[i]f the district court determines that [Petitioner] is not a citizen of the United States, then the case should be remanded to the BIA for a new hearing after production of the A-file in full.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dent v. Sessions
  2. “An A-file is the file maintained by various government agencies for each alien on record” and may include identifying documents such as a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Angela de Jesus-Concepcion
  3. “for a new hearing on [his] nationality claim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dent 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.