Rashad v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.3d 1 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Ayeni v. Holder (2010), Vasili v. Holder (2013)
16 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Juan Anibal Aguirre-Aguirre · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Romilus 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act causing - 22 - severe physical or mental pain or suffering . . . by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence point[] unerringly in the opposite direction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual claim masqueraded as a legal challenge”
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.