Qun Lin v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 22 · 2008
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Shrestha v. Holder (2010), Wang v. Holder (2009)
19 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 United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co. · Albathani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Chen v. U.S. Attorney General · Gailius v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · J-Y-C
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the BIA's decision is neither inconsistent with [the evidence at issue] nor gives reason to believe the BIA was unaware of it, we have no reason to doubt that the agency considered the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile the BIA need not 'discuss every piece of evidence offered,' it is 'required to consider all relevant evidence in the record.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the BIA does not adopt the IJ's findings, we review the BIA's decision rather than the IJ's.”
3 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.