Sheikh v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 1077 · 2005
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Guled v. Mukasey (2008), Huang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2006)
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Ngure v. Ashcroft · Ghasemimehr v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kondakova v. Ashcroft · Palmer v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Alemu v. Gonzales
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an extreme form of cruel and inhuman treatment intentionally inflicted by or with the acquiescence of a person acting in an official capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mohamed v. Gonzales
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.