24 I. & N. Dec. 617 - A-T’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2020
8 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. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Mohammed v. Gonzales · Bah v. Mukasey · Marquez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bah v. Gonzales · Tunis v. Gonzales
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause it is the applicant's burden in the first instance ... the applicant must initially identify the particular social group or groups in which membership is claimed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.