Kui Rong Ma v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.3d 553 · 2004
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007), Toufighi v. Mukasey (2008)
41 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · United States v. Wilson · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Qiu v. Ashcroft
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 96 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 ... shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he BIA's refusal to grant asylum to an individual who cannot register his marriage with the Chinese government on account of a law promulgated as part of its coercive population control policy, a policy deemed by Congress to be oppressive and persecutory, contravenes the statute and leads to absurd and wholly unacceptable results.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutory interpretations which would produce absurd results are to be avoided.”
3 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.