H’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007), Negusie v. Holder (2009)
29 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. § 1153 (§ 203 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Acewicz v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ravindran v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Gomez 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.
“can be characterized as a `particular social group' within Somalia, of which respondent is a member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Gonzales“the regulations envision that he or she ordinarily will proceed to accept further evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“victims were reportedly singled out for no reason other than their clan affiliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Gonzales
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.