Immigration
Deportation, naturalization, and detainee habeas.
40,879 federal civil cases in this category. Across all of them:
- Dismissed65.1%
- Defendant win11.8%
- Settled7.9%
- Other6.3%
- Transferred2.8%
- Remanded2.3%
- Plaintiff win2%
- Decided — other1.2%
- Mixed0.4%
- Affirmed0%
- Denied0%
By claim type
- Other immigration actions17,828 cases · 1,397 reached a judgment19.5%plaintiff win
- Habeas corpus - alien detainee14,622 cases · 3,845 reached a judgment10.9%plaintiff win
- Naturalization, petition for hearing of denial4,715 cases · 413 reached a judgment11.1%plaintiff win
- Deportation3,714 cases · 646 reached a judgment13%plaintiff win
Source: FJC Integrated Database (public domain), via CourtListener — federal civil cases filed and terminated, 1988–present. Figures are descriptive statistics about how cases of a given type have closed in a given court. They describe the historical record — not a prediction or assessment of any specific case. Not legal advice.