Mekhoukh v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.3d 118 · 2004
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Zehatye v. Gonzales (2006), Islami v. Gonzales (2005)
35 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
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. § 1229A (§ 240 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Reno v. Flores · Selective Draft Law Cases · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Albathani 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nlike an Article III judge, [an IJ] is not merely the fact finder and adjudicator but also has an obligation to establish the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“punishment for desertion or draft evasion, in itself, does not constitute persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion . . . [b]ut disproportionately severe punishment on account of any of these factors does constitute persecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zehatye v. Gonzales“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 passagee.g. Abdullah 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.