Beskovic v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.3d 223 · 2006
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Manzur v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2007), Mei Fun Wong v. Holder (2011)
19 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1187 (§ 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Chen v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service · Ivanishvili v. United States Department of Justice · Qiu 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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be keenly sensitive to the fact that any physical degradation designed to cause pain, humiliation, or other suffering, may rise to the level of persecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we retain substantial authority to vacate BIA or IJ decisions and remand for reconsideration or rehearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be assessed with regard to the context in which the mistreatment occurs,”
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.