Voci v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.3d 607 · 2005
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Chavarria v. Gonzalez (2006), Chukwu v. Attorney General of the United States (2007)
22 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft · Dia v. Ashcroft · Abdulai v. Ashcroft · Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur cases suggest that isolated incidents that do not result in serious injury do not rise to the level of persecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his Court has not yet drawn a precise line concerning where a simple beating ends and persecution begins,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here an asylum applicant has established past persecution, the existence of that persecution gives rise to a presumption that the applicant has a well-founded fear of future persecution. This presumption may be rebutted, however, if the government establishes, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there has been a fundamental change in circumstances such that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution in his or her home country.”
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.