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916 F.3d 1 · 2019

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 8 U.S.C. § 1189 (§ 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Baker v. Carr · Allen v. Wright · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha

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

  1. “A party forfeits an argument by failing to raise it in his opening brief.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Mentioning an argument 'in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel's work, ... and put flesh on its bones' is tantamount to failing to raise it.”
    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.