Segran v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.3d 1 · 2007
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Jianli Chen v. Holder (2012), Rivas-Mira v. Holder (2009)
26 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 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. § 1227 (§ 237 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))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · United States v. Zannino · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · 19 I. & N. Dec. 439 - MOGARRABI
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“that determination strips the testimony of probative force and permits the agency to . . . discount it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“accept the agency's findings of fact, including credibility findings, as long as they are 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.