Capric v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.3d 1075 · 2004
Citation profile
90 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Camara v. Ashcroft (2004), Li Hua Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2006)
90 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Zadvydas v. Davis
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“highly deferential review, . . . so long as they are supported by specific, cogent reasons that bear a legitimate nexus to the finding.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjective fear component turns largely upon the applicant's own testimony and credibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality ... and who is unable or unwilling to return to ... that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
4 later decisions 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.