Zhao v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 1027 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Tampubolon v. Holder (2010), Baghdasaryan v. Holder (2010)
8 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. § 1101 (§ 101 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 Hoxha v. Ashcroft · Shabanali Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Naseem Salman al-Harbi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Kotasz v. Immigration & 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The objective prong is satisfied either by ... a showing of past persecution, or by a showing of a good reason to fear future persecution based on credible, direct, and specific evidence in the record of facts that would support a reasonable fear of persecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the decision is ‘supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.’ ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tampubolon v. Holder“the evidence in the record compels a reasonable factfinder to conclude that the [BIA’s] decision is incorrect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tampubolon 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.