Wang He v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

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101 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo forced sterilization,”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jie Lin v. Ashcroft · Nai Yuan Jiang v. Holder

2. “Nor can an appellate court ... intrude upon the domain which Congress has exclusively entrusted to an administrative agency. A court of appeals is not generally empowered to conduct a de novo inquiry into the matter being reviewed and to reach its own conclusions based on such an inquiry. Rather, the proper course, except in rare circumstances, is to remand to the agency for additional investigation or explanation. Generally speaking, a court of appeals should remand a case to an agency for decision of a matter that statutes place primarily in agency hands. This principle has obvious importance in the immigration context.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zi Lin Chen v. Ashcroft · Xiao Lan Zheng v. Ashcroft

3. “Moreover, despite the IJ's obvious skepticism, Mr. He remained consistent and steadfast on a factual point that did not make that much difference to the truth of his claim. Whether five or ten people came to take his wife for involuntary sterilization it would nonetheless have been involuntary.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lin v. Ashcroft · Feng Dong v. Gonzales