Khouzam v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.3d 161 · 2004
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 374 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Paul v. Gonzales (2006), Nuru v. Gonzales (2005)
57 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 6 U.S.C. § 251 · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 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. § 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. · Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · Diallo 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 374 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rather than expanding or simply clarifying, the section of the CAT which defines torturous acts as those committed with the consent or acquiescence of a public official. See id. Such an assumption is contrary to legislative history. 44 By attaching the aforementioned understanding, the Senate could hardly have made it clearer that it did not intend”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he United States understands that the term “acquiescence” requires that the public official, prior to the activity constituting torture, have awareness of such activity and thereafter breach his legal responsibility to intervene to prevent such activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]orture requires only that government officials know of or remain willfully blind to an act and thereafter breach their legal responsibility to prevent it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chavez v. Garland · H.H. v. Garland
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.