S-V’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Najmabadi v. Holder (2010), Fernandez v. Gonzales (2006)
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Borja 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the new facts alleged, when coupled with the facts already of record, satisfy us that it would be worthwhile to develop the issues further at a plenary hearing on reopening.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o interpret the term [acquiescence] otherwise would be to misconstrue the meaning of `acquiescence,' the dictionary definition of which is `silent or passive assent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“indicating that actual knowledge of activity constituting torture is not required.... The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations clarified the point by stating that”
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.