Guo v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.3d 1194 · 2004
Citation profile
58 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Chun He Li v. Ashcroft (2004), Xiaoguang Gu v. Gonzales (2006)
58 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1281 (§ 251 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Martinez-Serrano v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Shabanali Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Bolanos-Hernandez 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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unclear testimony may not serve as substantial evidence for an adverse credibility finding when an applicant is not given the chance to attempt to clarify his or her testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A refugee is one who is 'unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of [his or her native] country because of [past] persecution or a well-founded fear of [future] persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.' " Id . at 1023 (first alteration in original) (quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(42)(A) ). "The bar for withholding of removal is higher; an applicant 'must demonstrate that it is more likely than not that he would be subject to persecution' on one of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is inappropriate to base an adverse credibility determination on an applicant's inability to obtain corroborating affidavits from relatives or acquaintances living outside of the United States—such corroboration is almost never easily available.”
2 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.