Pelinkovic v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
366 F.3d 532 · 2004
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Kamara v. Attorney General (2005), Berishaj v. Ashcroft (2004)
33 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
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Tarrawally v. Ashcroft · Capric v. Ashcroft · Dandan v. Ashcroft · Samer Mansour v. Immigration and 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to make a particularized showing that any of them would more likely than not be subject to torture upon their return, as differentiated from the general risk shared by all ethnic Albanians in Montenegro.” We explained it was impossible for the petitioners to show a likelihood of torture because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ali v. Achim
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.