Azanor v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 1013 · 2004
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005), Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007)
44 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. § 1105A (§ 106 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. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Reno v. Flores
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ... for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted ... with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e must decide whether to grant or deny the petition for review based on the Board's reasoning rather than our independent analysis of the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alien is more likely than not to be tortured in the country of removal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.