Safaie v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 636 · 1994
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1996), Castellano-Chacon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003)
48 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
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. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · ACOSTA · Rodriguez-Rivera v. U.S. Department of Immigration & Naturalization · Sanchez-Trujillo 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot merely contend that the government's policies are repressive or that she disagrees with the policies; she must demonstrate that she fears particularized persecution directed at her . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless otherwise stated, when this court affirms a decision of the [BIA], which contains a grant of voluntary departure, we intend and it is implied that voluntary departure is granted under the same conditions as stated in the [BIA’s] decision and that the time allowed for voluntary departure will begin to run on the date upon which our mandate issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rife v. Ashcroft
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.