Bellido v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.3d 840 · 2004
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Djonda v. U.S. Attorney General (2008), Mukamusoni v. Ashcroft (2004)
24 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. Cardoza-Fonseca · Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Osorio v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Perinpanathan v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Feleke 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to demonstrate there is a 100% chance, or even a 50% chance, of persecution upon [their] return to [China].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.