Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.3d 169 · 2004
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,384 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Paul v. Gonzales (2006), Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service (2004)
133 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 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. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Cited together with Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Paul v. Gonzales · Cao He Lin v. United States Department of Justice
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 1,384 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that the BIA has relied primarily on credibility grounds in dismissing an asylum application cannot insulate the decision from review.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pattern or practice in his or her country of nationality . . . of persecution of a group of persons similarly situated to the applicant on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion,”
5 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.