Susanto v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.3d 57 · 2006
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Bocova v. Gonzales · Nikijuluw 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that Alibeaj therefore met her burden to establish past persecution, the government had the opportunity to rebut the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the circumstances in Albania had changed so fundamentally since Alibeaj left in 2001 as to obviate her otherwise well-founded fear of future persecution. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1)(i). Indeed, the BIA specifically held that the government had met its burden, stating that it could not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alibeaj v. Gonzales“[t]he baseline rule is that past persecution requires `more than mere discomfiture, unpleasantness, harassment, or unfair treatment'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alibeaj v. Gonzales“no physical confinement and no serious physical injuries resulted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alibeaj 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.