Cigaran v. Heston’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 355 · 1998
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Singh v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Asani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Rojas 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conditions in the applicant's country ... have changed to such an extent that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of being persecuted if he or she were to return.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]he shifting of the evidentiary burden of preponderance is of practical consequence only in the rare event of an evidentiary tie.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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