Amir v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.3d 921 · 2006
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Koulibaly v. Mukasey (2008), Suarez-Valenzuela v. Holder (2013)
11 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. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Khouzam v. Ashcroft · Li Chen Zheng v. Ashcroft · Guang Run Yu v. Ashcroft · Pilica 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hey never proved I was guilty.” 9 .The REAL ID Act of 2005 (Pub. L 109-13, 119 Stat. 231 ) amended 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (b)(l)(B)(iii) to allow the trier of fact to make a credibility determination”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ... when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity-”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sy further requests that this court reject the BIA’s conclusion that Petitioner did not meet his burden of showing that he: 1) suffered past persecution on account of his race, membership in the Fulani ethnic group, and imputed political opinion and 2) has a well-founded fear of future persecution in Mauritania. The primary problem with this argument is that the BIA never reached these issues. Instead it affirmed based on the IJ's adverse credibility and firm resettlement determinations and explicitly noted that it "need not address the alternate finding that respondent failed to establish eligibility for relief even assuming that he testified credibly.” (Pet’r’s App. at 3.) Sy also disputes the IJ's conclusion that he failed to establish, by clear and convincing evidence, that he filed his asylum application within one year of entering the United States. Sy argues that ”[t]he record speak for itself and clearly establishes that petitioner entered that United States on July 15, 1998 and filed his application for asylum on August 16, 1998." (Pet’r's Br. at 26.) See also supra note 10. Under 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (a)(2)(B) an alien cannot apply for asylum unless he or she "demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the application has been filed within 1 year after the date of the alien’s arrival in the United States.” At Sy's hearing, the government argued that he "did not make a timely filing because he has no proof of entry.” (Supp.App. at 193.) Though the IJ agreed that S”
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.