Rasiah v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.3d 1 · 2009
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Paul v. Gonzales · Ramsameachire v. Ashcroft · Balasubramanrim v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kotasz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regular and widespread persecution creating a reasonable likelihood of persecution of all persons in the group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barsoum v. Holder
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.