PULA’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Kazlauskas v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995), Albathani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003)
23 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. § 1101 (§ 101 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. § 1182 (§ 212 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 · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Yiu Sing Chun v. Sava · Vasquez-Mondragon 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fraudulent avoidance of orderly refugee procedures to be an extremely adverse factor which could only be overcome with the most unusual showing of countervailing equities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an applicant for asylum has established a well-founded fear if he shows that a reasonable person in his circumstances would fear persecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the totality of the circumstances and actions of an alien in his flight from the country where he fears persecution”
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.