Perdomo v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.3d 662 · 2010
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
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. § 1182 (§ 212 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 Mohammed v. Gonzales · Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Gonzales v. Thomas · Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · ACOSTA
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.
“[T]he size and breadth of a group alone does not preclude a group from qualifying as [a particular] social group,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rejected the notion that a persecuted group may simply represent too large a portion of a population to allow its members to qualify for asylum”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“something comparable to the other four grounds of persecution under the Act.”
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.