Lin Qin v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.3d 302 · 2004
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Albathani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Gailius 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be upheld if `supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“established a well-founded fear of persecution.”
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.