Bace v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 1133 · 2003
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Ivanishvili v. United States Department of Justice (2006), Li v. Gonzales (2005)
40 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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. Ventura · Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice · Sangha v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Shabanali Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t would be improper to find that a witness's credibility about specific events could be `contradicted' by a generalized State Department report broadly discussing conditions in the applicant's country of origin.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ayele v. Holder · Lin v. Ashcroft“for political, religious, or other reasons that this country does not recognize as legitimate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a spouse or child ... of an alien who is granted asylum ... may, if not otherwise eligible for asylum ..., be granted the same status as the alien if accompanying, or following to join, such alien.”
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.