Rife v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.3d 606 · 2004
Citation profile
88 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Ivanishvili v. United States Department of Justice (2006), Li v. Attorney General of the United States (2005)
88 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 28 U.S.C. § 2349 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Hilton v. Braunskill · Desta v. Ashcroft · Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States · Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An alien may not be removed if the alien shows there is a clear probability that his `life, or freedom would be threatened in [the alien's] country because of the alien's race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“avoid[ ] the stigma of compulsory removal, permits the alien to select his or her own destination, and facilitates the possibility of return to the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n alien is considered to be firmly resettled if, prior to arrival in the United States, he or she entered into another country with, or while in that country received, an offer of permanent resident status, citizenship, or some other type of permanent resettlement ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sall v. Gonzales
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.