Narayan v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.3d 1065 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Movsisian v. Ashcroft (2005), Sinha v. Holder (2009)
8 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. Ventura · Shobna Chandar Lata v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft · Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Prasad v. 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the alien’s life or freedom would be threatened in that country because of the alien's race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3)(A). The elements of an application for withholding of removal are essentially the same as that of asylum, except the burden of proof is higher.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ali v. Holder
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.