Mapouya v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.3d 396 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Shan Sheng Zhao v. Holder (2009), Ndrecaj v. Mukasey (2008)
13 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Reno v. Flores
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) evidence of past torture inflicted upon the applicant; (2) evidence that the applicant can relocate to a part of the country of removal where he is not likely to be tortured; (3) evidence of gross, flagrant, or mass violations of human rights within the country of removal; and (4) other relevant information regarding conditions in the country of removal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conditions in the applicant’s country have changed to such an extent that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of being persecuted upon return. The [government] must do more than show that circumstances in the country have fundamentally changed; [it] must also show that such change negates the particular applicant’s well-founded fear of persecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We find no clear error in the Immigration Judge’s finding that the respondent is not credible. The Immigration Judge supported his adverse credibility finding with specific reasons based on the record that go to the heart of the respondent’s claims. In his decision, the Immigration Judge identified a material inconsistency between the respondent’s testimony and his Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal (Form 1-589), and his supplemental Form 1-589. Specifically, the respondent testified that on April 11, 2000, his leg was injured and his father was killed when their car flipped over while they were fleeing from rebels, but he indicated in both of his Form I-589s that his leg was injured as a result of a beating by the rebels and that the rebels killed his father at their house. We find the respondent’s explanation that his original Form 1-589 was filled out by someone who was not an attorney is insufficient, especially given that his supplemental Form 1-589 was filled out by an attorney and it contains the same information. Moreover, contrary to the respondent’s assertion on appeal, we find that this inconsistency is not minor and that it goes to the heart of his claims. Because we agree with the Immigration Judge’s adverse credibility finding for the abovementioned reasons, we need not address the other inconsistencies found by the Immigration Judge or the respondent’s related arguments on appeal. Additionally, because we agree with the Immigration Judge’s ad”
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.