Khan v. Filip’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.3d 681 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Gatimi v. Holder (2009), Krishnapillai 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 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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 Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice · Ramadan v. Gonzales · Sukwanputra 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ayele 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.