Lin v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 748 · 2004
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Ke Zhen Zhao v. United States Department of Justice · Shieh v. State Bar · Wang He 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The IJ's skepticism—utterly unsupported by any facts in the record—with respect to [an element of petitioner's testimony] does not form a valid basis for a negative credibility determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we will not automatically yield to the IJ's conclusions when they are drawn from insufficient or incomplete evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The testimony of the applicant, if credible, may be sufficient to sustain the burden of proof without corroboration.”
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.