Mele v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.3d 30 · 2015
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1151 (§ 201 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Henry v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Hadwani v. Gonzales · Hasan v. Holder · Arias-Minaya v. Holder · Ramirez-Matias 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an immigration court may generally consider a police report . . . when making a discretionary immigration decision, even if an arrest did not result in a charge or conviction,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Barr · Thomas v. Garland“Where Congress has enacted a jurisdictional wall, a noncitizen cannot scale it simply by 'relitigating whether the factors relevant to the discretionary relief were appropriately weighed by the IJ and the - 17 - BIA.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Twum v. Barr · Rosa v. Garland“the Attorney General [has the discretion to] adjust an alien’s status to that of a lawful permanent resident,” Mele v. Lynch, 798 F.3d 30, 32 (1st Cir.2015),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.