Torres v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.3d 616 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Cece v. Holder (2013), Hassan v. Holder (2009)
15 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. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Chen Yun Gao v. Ashcroft · ACOSTA · Aguilera-Cota v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Capric 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The petitioner’s] testimony is rife with examples that provide his family’s history as the nexus for his mistreatment. Throughout the hearing, [the petitioner] noted the numerous occasions on which ... his primary perseeutor[ ] referenced [the petitioner’s] family while inflicting harm on [the petitioner]. In at least one instance when [the persecutor] placed an unloaded pistol to [the petitioner’s] head and pulled the trigger, [the petitioner] testified that [the persecutor] said, “You are going to pay for your brothers’ desertion. You are going to pay for his escape because you are the last one that ... we ... have.” According to [the petitioner’s] testimony, [the persecutor] told [the petitioner] that he placed [the petitioner] in the water barrel because “I had to pay for the escape of my brothers.” [The petitioner] testified that when [the persecutor] forced [the petitioner] to run nude in front of his unit, [the persecutor] ordered, “Put this man to run until he falls dead .... Because you have to pay for what your brothers did for their escape because they violated. They defy the army.” [The petitioner] also stated, “I was so afraid that I was going to stay in [the army] and I was afraid to die in there. Because ... [the persecutor] told me that I was never going to leave that place .... Because I was going to pay for my brothers’ escape because I was the last one that remained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Demiraj v. Holder“within Honduran military circles[,] the Flores Torres clan is known as a family of deserters.” Id. at 622 . The Seventh Circuit characterized the persecution of the petitioners in that proceeding as retribution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Demiraj v. Holder“Our prior opinions make it clear that we consider family to be a cognizable social group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. W.G.A. v. Sessions
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.