Rashiah v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.3d 1126 · 2004
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Dankam v. Gonzales (2007), Firmansjah v. Gonzales (2005)
26 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
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Georgis v. Ashcroft · Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Dandan v. Ashcroft · Samer Mansour 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person . . . with the consent or acquiescence of a public official.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The language of the regulation unambiguously permits withholding of removal due to torture personally suffered by the alien....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.