23 I. & N. Dec. 951 - C-A’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
58 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder (2013), Cordoba v. Holder (2013)
58 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))
Relies on Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sanchez-Trujillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Castellano-Chacon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Gomez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Geovanni Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record in this case indicates that the Cali cartel and other drug cartels have directed harm against anyone and everyone perceived to have interfered with, or who might present a threat to, their criminal enterprises. In this sense, informants are not in a substantially different situation from anyone who has crossed the Cali cartel or who is perceived to be a threat to the cartel’s interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a former police officer were singled out for reprisal, not because of his status as a former police officer, but because of his role in disrupting particular criminal activity, he would not be considered, without more, to have been targeted as a member of a particular social group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pavlyk v. Gonzales“[s]ocial groups based on innate characteristics such as sex . . . are generally easily recognizable and understood by others to constitute social groups”
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.