Pieterson v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 38 · 2004
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Makhoul v. Ashcroft (2004), Settenda v. Ashcroft (2004)
19 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Albathani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Alvarez-Flores 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Discrimination is not the equivalent of persecution; `[t]o qualify as persecution, a person's experience must rise above unpleasantness, harassment, and even basic suffering.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the asylum officer or immigration judge shall not require the applicant to provide evidence that he or she would be singled out individually for [future] persecution if: (i) The applicant establishes that in that country there is a pattern or practice of persecution of a group of persons similarly situated to the applicant on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and (ii) The applicant establishes his or her own inclusion in and identification with such group of persons such that it is more likely than not that his or her life or freedom would be threatened upon return to that country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Discrimination is not the equivalent of persecution. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharari v. Gonzáles
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.