United States v. Ullah’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 509 · 1992
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Ibarra-Flores v. Gonzales (2006), Williams v. Gerber Products Co. (2008)
105 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Johnson v. Louisiana · Apodaca v. Oregon · Reiter v. Cooper · Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. · United States v. Reyes-Alvarado
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e `will not ordinarily consider matters on appeal that are not specifically and distinctly argued in appellant's opening brief.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a failure to do so would result in manifest injustice.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e may review an issue if the failure to raise the issue properly did not prejudice the defense of the opposing party,”
10 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.