Benitez Ramos v. Holder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a member of a violent criminal gang who committed violent acts “may be barred from the relief [of asylum]” in discretion
• denouncing the BIA’s insistence on “social visibility,” sometimes in its literal form, and charging the BIA might not understand the difference between visibility in a -12- social sense and the external criterion sense
• same regarding former 4 Insofar as Salazar challenges the BIA’s particularity and social distinction requirements as inconsistent with the statutory text, that argument is foreclosed by our decision in Ucelo-Gomez v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 70, 72–74 (2d Cir. 2007
• former criminal- gang members are a social group
• former members of a violent street gang

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jose Orellana-Monson v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-06-25· cited 581×
• W-G-R
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2014-07-01· cited 359×
• Antonio A. Gonzalez v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-04-19· cited 195×
• Valdiviezo-Galdamez v. Attorney General of the United States
  Third Circuit· 2011-11-08· cited 176×
• Crespin-Valladares v. Holder
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-02-16· cited 145×
• Elias Umana-Ramos v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-07-30· cited 131×
• Julio Martinez v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-01-23· cited 112×
• Lizama v. Holder
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-01-19· cited 102×
• Rivera-Barrientos v. Holder
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-01-11· cited 101×
• Johana Cece v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-08-09· cited 80×
• Urbina-Mejia v. Holder
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-03-05· cited 79×
• Sarhan v. Holder
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-02· cited 61×
• N.L.A. v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-03-03· cited 52×
• Escobar v. Holder
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-07· cited 39×
• Jonaitiene v. Holder
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-26· cited 37×
• Oscar Granados Gaitan v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2012-03-01· cited 36×
• BUESO-AVILA v. Holder
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-11-29· cited 32×
• Gatimi v. Holder
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-17· cited 20×
• Claros Cantarero v. Holder, Jr.
  First Circuit· 2013-10-31· cited 15×
• Alberto Velasco-Giron v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-09-26· cited 11×

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 4,149×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura
  Supreme Court· 2002-11-04· cited 3,361×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 1,895×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-Aguirre
  Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 1,159×
• Efe v. Ashcroft
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-20· cited 645×
• Gonzales v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 2006-04-17· cited 486×
• MOGARRABI
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1987-07-01· cited 442×
• Rolando Augustine Castellano-Chacon v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-08-18· cited 331×
• Arteaga v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-12-27· cited 326×
• Negusie v. Holder
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-03· cited 322×
• S-E-G
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2008-07-01· cited 271×
• A-M-E & J-G-U
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2007-07-01· cited 201×
• KASINGA
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1996-07-01· cited 184×
• Miguel Cruz-Navarro, Graciela Egoavil-Valenzuela, and Sergio Brian Cruz-Egoavil v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-11-15· cited 182×
• Ramos-Lopez v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-04-16· cited 177×
• C-A
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2006-07-01· cited 170×
• FUENTES
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1988-07-01· cited 152×
• Mya Lwin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-05-15· cited 113×
• Kouame Adonics Konan v. Attorney General of the United States
  Third Circuit· 2005-12-30· cited 107×
• Velarde v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-04-10· cited 83×