Urukov v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 222 · 1995
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Soadjede v. Ashcroft (2003), Mitev v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995)
29 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. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Caso v. United States · Kaczmarczyk 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the evidence presented ... was such that a reasonable factfinder would have to conclude that the requisite fear of persecution existed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not rise to the level of 'infliction of harm' . . . that we find 'illegitimate' to justify granting asylum”
2 later decisions 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.