Jin Zhu S-Cheng v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
380 F.3d 320 · 2004
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Grass v. Gonzales (2005), Reyes-Morales v. Gonzales (2006)
14 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 · Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. · Menendez-Donis v. Ashcroft · Agada v. Ashcroft
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we find no reasonable fact-finder could arrive at the conclusion reached by the BIA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the BIA's findings of fact, including its decision that an applicant has failed to establish eligibility for asylum or withholding of removal, under a standard equivalent to the substantial-evidence standard.”
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.