Begna v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.3d 301 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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 Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Yueh-Shaio Yang · Guan Shan Liao v. United States Department of Justice · Ngure v. Ashcroft · Perinpanathan 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the BIA's decision whether to employ the A[ffirmance] W[ithout] O[pinion] procedure in a particular case is committed to agency discretion and not subject to judicial review”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“life, or freedom would be threatened in [her] country because of [her] race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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