Elien v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 392 · 2004
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Kamara v. Attorney General (2005), S-E-G (2008)
56 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 & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Morton v. Ruiz · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · ACOSTA
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act causing severe physical or mental pain or suffering . . . by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]ace, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) an act causing severe physical or mental pain or suffering; (2) intentionally inflicted; (3) for a proscribed purpose; (4) by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official who has custody or physical control of the victim; and (5) not arising from lawful sanctions.”
3 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.