L-E-A’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Jie Lin v. Ashcroft · Gebremichael v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Crespin-Valladares v. Holder · Al-Ghorbani v. Holder · Barajas-Romero v. Lynch
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a persecutor targets a family member simply as a means to an end is not, by itself, sufficient to establish a claim, especially if the end is not connected to another protected ground.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether a social group is cognizable is a fact-based inquiry made on a case-by-case basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miranda v. Sessions“members of an immediate family may constitute a particular social group,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Rivas 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.