Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.3d 477 · 2001
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 667 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft (2002), Lie v. Ashcroft (2005)
110 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Sangha 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 667 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality ... and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he [agency]'s finding must be upheld unless the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the evidence presented by [petitioner] was such that a reasonable factfinder would have to conclude that the requisite fear of persecution existed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 03-4360 · Singh v. Gonzalez
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.