Awolesi v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.3d 227 · 2003
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Dia v. Ashcroft (2003), En Hui Huang v. Attorney General of the United States (2010)
14 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. § 1105 (§ 105 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Abdulai v. Ashcroft · Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States · Tipu v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sotto v. United States 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order for us to be able to give meaningful review to [a BIA] decision, we must have some insight into its reasoning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be forced to undergo such a procedure or subject to persecution for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the BIA reversed the decision of the IJ [granting asylum], with only the opaque explanation that `the evidence is insufficient' and `the arguments made by the [INS] on appeal . . . are persua[sive].'”
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.