Laurent v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 59 · 2004
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Bocova v. Gonzales (2005), Nikijuluw v. Gonzales (2005)
60 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Liteky et al United States · Lukwago v. Ashcroft · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Alvarez-Flores 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [BIA's] determination must stand `unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“points unerringly in the opposite direction.”
5 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.”
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.