Sok v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.3d 48 · 2008
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Chhay v. Mukasey (2008), Aldana-Ramos v. Holder (2014)
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. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Zannino · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Poradisova v. Gonzales · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Guo 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he absence of reasoned discussion of past persecution undercuts any meaningful review of the [agency's] fear of future persecution finding, because we do not know whether [the applicant] should have had the benefit of the regulatory presumption of fear of persecution based on prior events.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile the IJ need not address each and every piece of evidence put forth by a - 23 - petitioner, he must at least 'make findings, implicitly if not explicitly, on all grounds necessary for decision.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the agency 'is obligated to offer more explanation when the record suggests strong arguments for the petitioner that the [agency] has not considered.'”
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.