Shardar v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.3d 318 · 2004
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Borges v. Gonzales (2005), Voci v. Gonzales (2005)
23 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu · Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft · Dia v. Ashcroft · Abdulai 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Whether a petitioner has demonstrated past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution is a factual question that is reviewed by this court under a substantial evidence standard, and will be upheld to the extent it is supported by ‘reasonable, substantial and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levit v. Ashcroft“[a]s a general matter ... fear of prosecution for violations of `fairly administered laws' does not itself qualify one as a `refugee' or make one eligible for withholding of deportation,”
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.