Gramatikov v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 619 · 1997
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Chen v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (2004), Varsha Tushar Shah v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2000)
28 federal appellate ·
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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Mitev v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bucur v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Rosus · Felzcerek v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had better be able to point to a highly credible independent source of expert knowledge if he wants to contradict the ... Department's evaluation of the likelihood of his being persecuted if he is forced to return home, an evaluation to which courts inevitably give considerable weight.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is perennial concern that the Department soft-pedals human rights violations by countries that the United States wants to have good relations with.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he advice of the State Department is not binding, either on the service or on the courts....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.