E-A-G’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder (2013), Orellana-Monson v. Holder (2012)
27 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b 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 · Sanchez-Trujillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Castellano-Chacon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Chen v. R Gonzales US · Ontunez-Tursios v. Ashcroft
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[because] membership in a criminal gang cannot constitute a particular social group, [a] respondent [also] cannot establish particular social group status based on the incorrect perception by others that he is such a gang member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. Garland“social visibility that would allow others to identify [the group's] members as part of such a group”
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.