Chhay v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 1 · 2008
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Mendez-Barrera v. Holder (2010), López-Castro v. Holder (2009)
30 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1227 (§ 237 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Makhoul v. Ashcroft · Cordero-Trejo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Pan 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we will reverse only if the record is such as to compel a reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary determination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s long as the agency's credibility determination is 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole,' we must accept it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n alien may satisfy his burden of proving entitlement to asylum 'by [his] own testimony if that testimony is specific and credible.'”
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.