López-Castro v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.3d 49 · 2009
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Mazariegos-Paiz v. Holder (2013), Seng v. Holder (2009)
21 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Bocova v. Gonzales · Nikijuluw 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) he has suffered past persecution on account of a statutorily protected ground, thus creating a rebuttable presumption that he may suffer future persecution if repatriated, or (ii) that it is more likely than not that he will be persecuted on account of a protected ground upon his return to his native land.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And when an asylum-seeker does not 'know[] who was responsible' for a killing, 'it is no more than a guess that a nexus existed between the [killing] and a statutorily protected ground.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a clear probability of future persecution”
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.