Balogun v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.3d 492 · 2004
Citation profile
68 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005), Abebe v. Gonzales (2005)
68 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. Elias-Zacarias · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft · Shabanali Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Borja 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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjective fear component turns largely upon the applicant's own testimony and credibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we must uphold the IJ's findings if they are supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole; we may reverse the IJ's determinations only if we determine that the evidence compels a different result.”
2 later decisions 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.