Jian Chen v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 1113 · 2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Sanchez-Trujillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Singh v. Ilchert · Hernandez-ortiz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Estrada-Posadas v. U.S. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“China appears to be taking active measures to target people smugglers and stop illegal departures by economic migrants. Several scores of people smugglers and Fujian officials reportedly have been convicted, fired from jobs, or expelled from the Communist Party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and even death. Rojek testified that ... the PRC would not protect [Chen] from the snakeheads because the existence of the snakeheads as a criminal syndicate was not acknowledged by the PRC.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Those who failed to pay debts owed to the snakeheads would have to pay”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.