Xu Ming Li v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.3d 1153 · 2004
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005), Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007)
48 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other resistance to a coercive population control program.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be forced to undergo such a procedure or subject to persecution for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“I'm going to have many babies ... you have nothing to do with this.”
3 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.