KASINGA’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
49 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005), Bah v. Mukasey (2008)
49 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. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Rust v. Sullivan · Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sanchez-Trujillo 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can result in permanent loss of genital sensation and can adversely affect sexual and erotic functions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is practiced, at least in some significant part, to overcome sexual characteristics of young women”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The applicant did not attempt a fraudulent entry into the United States. Rather, upon arrival at Newark International Airport on December 17, 1994, she immediately requested asylum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Balogun 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.