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26 I. & N. Dec. 516 - L-A-C’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
July 2023
most recently cited

4 federal appellate ·

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. § 1229A (§ 240 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 Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Bagamasbad · Shrestha v. Holder · Shabanali Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ren v. Holder

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the instructions for the Application for Asylum and Withholding of Removal (Form I-589) provide ... notice to an applicant that he 'must submit reasonably available corroborative evidence' relating to both general country conditions and the specific facts upon which the claim is based,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wei Sun v. Sessions
  2. “determines that specific corroborating evidence should have been submitted, the applicant should be given an opportunity to explain why he could not reasonably obtain such evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ixcuna-Garcia v. Garland
  3. “[t]here are circumstances in which it is appropriate to continue the proceedings to another merits hearing for an applicant to present additional corroboration,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wei Sun v. Sessions

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.