Muhur v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.3d 958 · 2004
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Kazemzadeh v. U.S. Attorney General (2009), Iao v. Gonzales (2005)
24 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 Georgis v. Ashcroft · Bace v. Ashcroft · Kerciku v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bastanipour 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that one is not entitled to claim ... religious persecution if ... one can escape the notice of the persecutors by concealing one's religion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ignorance of the details of religious doctrine . . . as evidence that an individual is not a true believer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne aim of persecuting a religion is to drive its adherents underground”
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.