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659 F.3d 513 · 2011

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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 Almuhtaseb v. Gonzales · MONREAL · RECINAS · Figueroa v. Mukasey · Aburto-Rocha 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “this court lacks jurisdiction over claims that can be evaluated only by engaging in head-to-head comparisons between the facts of the petitioner's case and those of precedential decisions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Review that required a tallying of hardships would amount to second-guessing the agency's weighing of factors, an endeavor that we have repeatedly recognized as beyond our jurisdiction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “The preclusion of review of cancellation denials does not extend to 'questions of law' under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(D), or to 'nondiscretionary issues'....”
    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.