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398 F.3d 120 · 2005

Citation profile

111
cited by 111 later decisions
January 2018
most recently cited

67 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ravindran v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Makhoul v. Ashcroft · Silva v. Ashcroft

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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a more stringent burden of proof on an alien than does a counterpart claim for asylum.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
    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.