Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1,492 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,637 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias (1992), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
1,492 federal appellate · 16 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFlorentino A. Zamora v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Roberte Noel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1157 (§ 207 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1159 (§ 209 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Addington v. Texas · Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Leng May Ma v. Barber · Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California
Cited together with Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang
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 3,637 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion....”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is more likely than not that the alien would be subject to persecution”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is more likely than not that [she] would be subject to persecution on one of the specified grounds.”
32 later decisions 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.