Quevedo v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
336 F.3d 39 · 2003
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rodriguez-Ramirez v. Ashcroft (2005), Palma-Mazariegos v. Gonzales (2005)
21 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. § 1158 (§ 208 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 · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Arkansas v. Oklahoma
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here has been a fundamental change in circumstances such that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution in the applicant's country of nationality”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the applicant could avoid future persecution by relocating to another part of the applicant's country, and . . . it would be reasonable to expect the applicant to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Country conditions] evidence is often general in nature and may not be an adequate response to an applicant's showing of specific personal danger.”
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.