Farah v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.3d 1153 · 2003
Citation profile
52 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,146 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Singh v. Gonzales (2006), Nahrvani v. Gonzales (2005)
52 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 · Abderrahman Chebchoub v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Cited together with Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Abderrahman Chebchoub v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Shrestha v. Holder · Chun He Li v. Ashcroft · Shobna Chandar Lata 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 2,146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the Attorney General determines that an alien has knowingly made a frivolous application for asylum and the alien has received the notice under paragraph (4)(A), the alien shall be permanently ineligible for any benefits under this chapter, effective as of the date of a final determination on such application.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]uring the course of the proceedings, [an applicant must] ha[ve] had sufficient opportunity to account for any discrepancies or implausible aspects of the claim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Istifan v. Ashcroft · Liu v. Holder“conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kumar v. Gonzales
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.