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Rhoa-Zamora v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Juresma-Altamirano’s Empirical Analysis

971 F.2d 26 · 1992

Citation profile

87
cited by 87 later decisions
January 2012
most recently cited

69 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice (2006), Abdulai v. Ashcroft (2001)

69 federal appellate ·

570199220002010decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life

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

  1. “'alien has not exhausted the administrative remedies available to him as of right,'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “will not weigh evidence that the Board has not previously considered,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the mechanism of the motion to reopen, which allows asylum petitioners an opportunity to introduce evidence rebutting officially noticed facts”
    2 later decisions 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.