Hamoui v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
389 F.3d 821 · 2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Cole v. Holder (2011), Oropeza-Wong v. Gonzales (2005)
7 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Kalaw v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cano-Merida v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Navaratwam Kamalthas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Oscar Socop-Gonzalez 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Torture is defined, in part, as 'any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ... for any reason based on discrimination of any kind.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To qualify for CAT relief, a petitioner must establish that 'it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In other words, [Petitioner] 'must show only a chance greater than fifty percent that he will be tortured if removed to'”
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.