Seng v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.3d 13 · 2009
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Mendez-Barrera v. Holder (2010), Jianli Chen v. Holder (2012)
27 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. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 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. Elias-Zacarias · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Laurent v. Ashcroft · Pan 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must demonstrate either past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution 'on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“accepting the agency's factfinding unless the evidence 'would compel a reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary conclusion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Should the IJ reasonably determine that the alien's testimony is not credible, he may disregard it in whole or in part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lafortune v. Garland
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.