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445 F.3d 127 · 2006

Citation profile

83
cited by 83 later decisions
December 2017
most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Zhang v. Gonzales · Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft · Cao He Lin v. United States Department of Justice

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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “reasonable person facing [persecution] may offer false documents to escape it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “immediate danger or imminent persecution.”
    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.