Tekle v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.3d 1044 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Kin v. Holder (2010), Reyes v. Lynch (2016)
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Washington Western District Court)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Stansbury v. California · Zehatye v. Gonzales · Gonzales v. Thomas · Satnam Singh-Kaur Hari Singh v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In so doing, we review ... the reasons explicitly identified by the BIA, and then examine the reasoning articulated in the IJ's oral decision in support of those reasons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“IJ's oral decision as a guide to what lay behind the BIA's conclusion[s].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state[s] with sufficient particularity and clarity the reasons for denial of asylum and d[oes] not merely provide a boilerplate opinion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ming Dai v. Sessions
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.