Feng Gui Lin v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.3d 981 · 2009
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 25 I. & N. Dec. 209 - H-L-H- & Z-Y-Z (2010), Juan Hernandez-Ortiz v. Merrick Garland (2022)
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. § 1229A (§ 240 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey · Wei Guang Wang v. Board of Immigration Appeals · Toufighi v. Mukasey · 24 I. & N. Dec. 247 - S-Y-G
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“More importantly, the BIA recognized that the letter [from the village] failed to address the fact that Lin’s husband had permanent resident status in the United States and how that status would affect application of the family planning laws.”
1 later decision 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.