Matovu v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.3d 383 · 2009
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2022
9 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. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sharari v. Gonzáles · Scatambuli v. Holder · Chhay v. Mukasey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In other words, findings of fact will stand as long as they are 'supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diaz Ortiz v. Barr“unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.