Latifi v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 103 · 2005
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Yun-Zui Guan v. Gonzales (2005), Xiao Xing Ni v. Gonzales (2007)
15 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. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft · Chen v. United States Immigration and 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e take judicial notice of the fact that the Democratic Party returned to power in Albania through general elections in July.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any potential discrepancies that might exist to be far from 'significant and numerous,' but rather insignificant and trivial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“squarely within the category of reasons which, as we stated in Ramsameachire, require that airport interviews be viewed with caution”
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.