S-E-G’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
61 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey (2008), Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder (2013)
61 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Mohammed v. Gonzales · Fatin 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record before us is adequate to allow us to perform de novo review of the legal issues presented, specifically, whether the [applicants] established that they were persecuted 'on account of' a protected ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferreira v. Garland“the key question is whether the proposed description is sufficiently particular or is too amorphous to create a benchmark for determining group membership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“particular and well-defined boundaries, and . . . possess a recognized level of social visibility”
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.