Osonowo v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 922 · 2008
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Malonga v. Mukasey (2008), Ngengwe v. Mukasey (2008)
25 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Ngure v. Ashcroft · Menendez-Donis v. Ashcroft · Eta-Ndu v. Gonzales · Guled v. Mukasey
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the deferential substantial evidence standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the agency determination that an alien is not eligible for asylum, withholding of removal, or relief under the Convention Against Torture using the deferential substantial evidence standard. Under this deferential standard of review, we are not at liberty to reweigh the evidence, and we will uphold the denial of relief unless the alien demonstrates that the evidence was so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Azie v. Holder“Only the BIA order is subject to our review, including the IJ's findings and reasoning to the extent they were expressly adopted by the BIA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mendez-Gomez v. Barr
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.