Nikijuluw v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 115 · 2005
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Sioe Tjen Wong v. Attorney General of United States (2008), Pan v. Gonzales (2007)
84 federal appellate · 21 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 6 U.S.C. § 291 · 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · United States v. Zannino · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Gailius 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than mere discomfiture, unpleasantness, harassment, or unfair treatment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the direct result of government action, government-supported action, or government's unwillingness or inability to control private conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires us to defer to the agency's findings as long as they are 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
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.