Xiao Lan Zheng v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 1139 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Singh v. Gonzales (2006), Don v. Gonzales (2007)
12 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. Ventura · Abderrahman Chebchoub v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Varsha Tushar Shah 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The IJ may use a country report as supplemental evidence to discredit a generalized statement made by the petitioner but not to discredit specific testimony regarding his individual experience.” (internal quotation marks omitted)). 3 . The IJ asked Lai during the hearing whether he had”
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.