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903 F.3d 147 · 2018

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
April 2020
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 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 MONREAL · Lattab v. Ashcroft · American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh · Pulisir v. Mukasey · Amouri 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[a] bare allegation of either a constitutional shortfall or legal error' will not suffice,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “any judgment regarding the granting of relief under [ 8 U.S.C. § 1229b ].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “'claim of constitutional or legal error must at least be colorable .'”
    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.