Sompotan v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.3d 63 · 2008
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Singh v. Mukasey (2008), Ordonez-Quino v. Holder (2014)
21 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Lie v. Ashcroft · Sanchez Jimenez v. U.S. Attorney General · Bocova v. Gonzales
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vents that stem from personal disputes are generally not enough to show the required nexus”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“prematurely terminate the analysis upon the finding of another motive,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hether the harm suffered by an asylum applicant was inflicted 'on account of' a protected ground is 'generally [a] question[] of fact.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pojoy-Deleon 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.