Ding v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
387 F.3d 1131 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft · Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Berroteran-Melendez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Rodriguez-Rivera v. U.S. Department of Immigration & Naturalization
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A refugee is an alien who is unable to return to his home country `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“the Chinese government's widespread use of `comprehensive and often intrusive family planning policies[ ]' includes `education, propaganda, and economic incentives, as well as . . . more coercive measures, including psychological pressure and economic penalties' imposed by local regulations.”
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.