Rahimzadeh v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.3d 916 · 2010
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Lolong v. Gonzales · Ashok Chand v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Baballah v. Ashcroft · Avetova-Elisseva 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1.. “establish[ ] that private persecution of a particular sort is widespread and well-known but not controlled by the government”; 2. “show[] that others have made reports of similar incidents to no avail”; 3. “demonstrate] that a country’s laws or customs effectively deprive the petitioner of any meaningful recourse to governmental protection”; or 4. “convincingly establish that going to the authorities would have been futile or would have subjected the individual to further abuse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As we have held previously, “[w]here the persecutor is not a state actor, ‘we consider whether an applicant reported the incident to police, because in such cases a report of this nature may show governmental inability to control the actors.’ ” Rahimzadeh v. Holder, 613 F.3d 916 , 921 (9th Cir.2010) (quoting Baballah, 367 F.3d at 1078 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In sum, while we do not diminish the trauma Castro experienced, substantial evidence supported the BIA’s conclusion that Castro did not meet his burden to show that the government was unable or unwilling to control his attackers and therefore failed to demonstrate that he had been the victim of past persecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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