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172 F.3d 978 · 1999

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
June 2014
most recently cited

19 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Ahmed v. Ashcroft (2003), Oforji v. Ashcroft (2003)

19 federal appellate ·

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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 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229A (§ 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Mitev v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sivaainkaran v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Lwin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Borca v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Boykov 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “specific, detailed facts supporting the reasonableness of [his] fear that [he] will be singled out for persecution.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ioan Sofinet v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Amin Meghani v. Immigration and Naturalization Service and Janet Reno
  2. “fact-intensive nature of [deportation] inquiries and the superior expertise of the agencies that administer our immigration law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Boutros Malek v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  3. “race, religion nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Tesfu v. Ashcroft

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.