Mashiri v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
383 F.3d 1112 · 2004
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Mohammed v. Gonzales (2005), Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007)
29 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. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft · Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and 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 117 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accompanied by evidence of violent confrontations, near-confrontations and vandalism”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]ersecution may be emotional or psychological, as well as physical.”
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.