Gomis v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.3d 353 · 2009
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Lizama v. Holder (2011), Kporlor v. Holder (2010)
17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from North Carolina Middle District Court)
Relationships
Applies 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 & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Chen v. United States Department of Justice R · Ramadan 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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Female genital mutilation, commonly called FGM, is the designation generally given to a class of surgical procedures involving the removal of some or all of the external genitalia, performed primarily on girls and young women in Africa and Asia. Often performed under unsanitary conditions with highly rudimentary instruments, FGM is extremely painful, permanently disfigures the female genitalia, [and] exposes the girl or woman to the risk of serious, potentially life-threatening complications, including bleeding, infection, urine retention, stress, shock, psychological trauma, and damage to the urethra and anus. FGM can result in the permanent loss of genital sensation in the victim and can adversely affect sexual function. Haoua v. Gonzales, 472 F.3d 227 , 230 n.5 (4th Cir. 2007) (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). FGM has also been described as genital circumcision or cutting. See Gomis v. Holder, 571 F.3d 353, 355 (4th Cir. 2009); Kourouma v. Holder, 588 F.3d 234, 242 (4th Cir. 2009). We have long recognized that FGM constitutes persecution within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Haoua, 472 F.3d at 231-32 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.