Mitreva v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.3d 761 · 2005
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Sioe Tjen Wong v. Attorney General of United States (2008), Mufied v. Mukasey (2007)
17 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 Nagoulko v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Hoxha v. Ashcroft · Lie v. Ashcroft · Kotasz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Capric 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There must be a systematic, pervasive, or organized effort to kill, imprison, or severely injure members of the protected group, and this effort must be perpetrated or tolerated by state actors.” Id. (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). The standard for showing a pattern or practice is high because it relieves the individual alien of presenting evidence that he in particular would likely experience persecution if returned to his country and in theory would entitle everyone else from his country who belongs to the protected group to asylum in the United States. Id.”
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.