Ouk v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.3d 108 · 2006
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007), Scatambuli v. Holder (2009)
27 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on He Chun Chen v. Ashcroft · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Romilus v. Ashcroft · Makhoul v. Ashcroft · Rodriguez-Ramirez v. Ashcroft
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“life or freedom would be threatened in that country because of the alien's race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When, as here, 'the BIA adopts the IJ's opinion and discusses some of the bases for the IJ's decision, we . . . review both the IJ's and the BIA's opinions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alay v. Bondi
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.