Gormley v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 1172 · 2004
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Zehatye v. Gonzales (2006), Lie v. Ashcroft (2005)
29 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. § 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. § 1227 (§ 237 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Nagoulko 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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the infliction of suffering or harm upon those who differ (in race, religion, or political opinion) in a way regarded as offensive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persecution is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment that our society regards as offensive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Li v. Gonzales
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.