Tendean v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.3d 8 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2023
5 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Silva v. Ashcroft · Xue Deng Jiang v. Gonzales · Carcamo-Recinos 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Torture is defined as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ... by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.” Id. § 1208.18(a)(1). The possibility of internal relocation is relevant in detei’mining whether the applicant has shown that he is likely to be tortured if removed. Id. § 1208.16(c)(3)(ii).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andri v. Mukasey“supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caz v. Garland
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.