Niam v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.3d 652 · 2004
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Yan Chen v. Gonzales (2005), Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005)
56 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 50 U.S.C. § 1701 (International Emergency Economic Powers Act) · 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Singh v. 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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“becomes the basis for judicial review of the decision of which the alien is complaining,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the immigration judge's] analysis flatly failed to engage with the evidence presented to him,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the Attorney General decides that the alien's life or freedom would be threatened in that country because of the alien's race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pavlyk 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.