Calmo v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Katuria E. Smith v. Tyson Marsh · Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Kotasz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kalubi v. Ashcroft
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mayans, as a group, were identified by the Guatemalan army as guerrilla allies and were targeted for extinction.”
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.