Passi v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.3d 98 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Lecaj v. Holder (2010), Castro v. Holder (2010)
9 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. Cardoza-Fonseca · Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Yan Chen v. Gonzales · Xue Hong Yang v. United States Department of Justice · Ramsameachire 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the State Department country reports often provide “a useful and informative overview of conditions in the applicant’s home country,” we have instructed the immigration courts “not to place excessive reliance” on them. Tian-Yong Chen v. INS, 359 F.3d 121 , 130 (2d Cir.2004). In Tambadou v. Gonzales we explained that the BIA cannot rely in a conclusory fashion on information in a State Department country report about “general changes in the country.” 446 F.3d [298] at 303 [ (2d Cir.2006) ] (internal quotation marks omitted). Instead, we explained, the BIA must “use the information in the [r]eport in a case-specific manner and supplement it with further analysis,” that is, the BIA must “conduct an individualized analysis of how changed conditions would affect the specific petitioner’s situation.” Id. (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lecaj v. Holder
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.