22 I. & N. Dec. 312 - N-M-A’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007), Mehmeti v. U.S. Attorney General (2009)
10 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Lorillard v. Pons · Medina v. California
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a variety of discretionary factors, independent of the circumstances that led to the applicant's refugee status, such as his age, health, or family ties, which are relevant to the ultimate exercise of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brucaj 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.