Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.3d 266 · 2002
Citation profile
149 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 808 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003), Xiu Xia Lin v. Mukasey (2008)
149 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Abdulai v. Ashcroft · Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
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 808 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must affirm the BIA's decision if it is supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he administrative findings of fact are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
9 later decisions 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.