V-K’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2023
9 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to reverse the immigration judge’s determination that “there [was] a preponderance of evidence in the record leading to a justification for a clear probability finding that this particular respondent ... is likely to be targeted [for mistreatment,] at least in part, by both governmental and nongovernmental entities within the Ukraine should he be removed to that country ... [and that such mistreatment will rise to the level of torture.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Board may review questions of law, discretion, and judgment and all other issues in appeals from decisions of immigration judges de novo”
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.