24 I. & N. Dec. 69 - A-M-E & J-G-U’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
45 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Manzur v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2007), Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey (2008)
45 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 · Li Chen Zheng v. Ashcroft · Borja v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Gomez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Castillo-Arias v. U.S. Attorney General
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Depending upon one’s perspective, the wealthy may be limited to the very top echelon; but a more expansive view might include small business owners and others living a relatively comfortable existence in a generally impoverished country. Because the concept of wealth is so indeterminate, the proposed group could vary from as little as 1 percent to as much as 20 percent of the population, or more.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“too amorphous ... too subjective, inchoate, and variable to provide the sole basis for membership in a particular social group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the context of the country of concern and the persecution feared”
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.