Diab v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 35 · 2005
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Poradisova v. Gonzales (2005), Dhima v. Gonzales (2005)
28 federal appellate · 1 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 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · El Moraghy v. Ashcroft · Guzman 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) by demonstrating a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, or (2) by proving past persecution on account of one of the aforementioned grounds, which entitles an applicant to a presumption of a well-founded fear of persecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“eery similarity” between his description of his mistreatment and Toualy's description of his own mistreatment. 9 . We note that an applicant’s testimony, “if credible, may be sufficient to sustain [his] burden of proof without corroboration.” 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13 (a). But where, as here, the applicant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dehonzai v. Holder“Should the applicant be found not entirely credible, corroborating evidence, such as country condition reports, may be used to bolster an applicant’s credibility.”
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.