Silva v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.3d 1 · 2005
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bocova v. Gonzales (2005), Nikijuluw v. Gonzales (2005)
80 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 6 U.S.C. § 291 · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Fatin 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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ction by non-governmental actors can undergird a claim of persecution only if there is some showing that the alleged persecutors are in league with the government or are not controllable by the government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
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.