19 I. & N. Dec. 439 - MOGARRABI’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
99 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 238 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service (2004), Yan Chen v. Gonzales (2005)
99 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1 · 8 U.S.C. § 1157 (§ 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sanchez-Trujillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. 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 238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n applicant for asylum has established a well-founded fear if he shows that a reasonable person in his circumstances would fear persecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“believable, consistent, and sufficiently detailed to provide a plausible and coherent account of the basis for his fear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he allowance for lack of corroborative evidence does not mean that 'unsupported statements must necessarily be accepted as true if they are inconsistent with the general account put forward by the applicant.'”
1 later decision 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.