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819 F.3d 98 · 2016

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
May 2023
most recently cited

4 federal appellate ·

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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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. § 1229A (§ 240 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. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Descamps v. United States · Moncrieffe v. Holder · Mikhael v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Orellana-Monson v. Holder · Carbajal-Gonzalez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

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

  1. “[T]he alien, not the Government, bears the initial burden of production of evidence that he is eligible for discretionary relief.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Presentation of an inconclusive record of conviction is insufficient to meet an alien's burden of demonstrating eligibility.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[n]otwithstanding the inconclusive evidence in the instant case, ... the burden remains on [the petitioner] to prove eligibility for relief from removal.” But there, the ambiguity did not rest on a divisible statute, and the court declined to decide "whether Moncrieffe affected how courts should apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a prior conviction disqualifies a noncitizen from relief from removal when the record of conviction is ambiguous as to whether the elements of the crime correspond to a disqualifying offense.” Id. at 107 n.5. 5 . Amici also contend that Young is clearly irreconcilable with Moncrieffe because of the latter’s statement that ”[t]hp categorical approach was designed to avoid” inconsistent treatment of “two noncitizens ... ‘convicted of’ the same offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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