Singh v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
301 F.3d 1109 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Malhi v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003), Shrestha v. Holder (2010)
26 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Abderrahman Chebchoub v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Varsha Tushar Shah v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Naseem Salman al-Harbi v. Immigration and 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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must go to the heart of [the] asylum claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he BIA must have a legitimate articulable basis to question the petitioner's credibility, and must offer a specific, cogent reason for any stated disbelief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the evidence that the petitioner presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.”
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.