Camara v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.3d 361 · 2004
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 421 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Yi Wu Zhang v. Gonzales (2005), Li Fang Lin v. Mukasey (2008)
48 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 6 U.S.C. § 291 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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. § 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 · Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Zubeda v. Ashcroft · Rusu v. U.S. 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 421 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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“independent evidence, taken together, provided strong circumstantial evidence that Camara was imprisoned for political expression in opposition to the ruling government,”
3 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.