Dwomoh v. Sava’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2007
5 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. § 1253 (§ 243 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. Cardoza-Fonseca · Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Damaize-Job v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Desir v. Ilchert
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“UNHCR Handbook "). 2 The relevant paragraph distinguishing persecution on account of political opinion from prosecution for politically motivated crimes advises: 13 If the prosecution pertains to a punishable act committed out of political motives, and if the anticipated punishment is in conformity with the general law of the country concerned, fear of such prosecution will not in itself make the applicant a refugee. 14 UNHCR Handbook at paragraph 84. 15 Although fear of prosecution for a politically motivated crime does not in itself make an applicant a refugee, the UNHCR Handbook and some courts have recognized additional circumstances, which when combined with prosecution for a politically motivated crime, may constitute persecution. 3 Factors bearing on whether a political offender can be considered a refugee include "the nature of the law on which the prosecution is based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“general rule [that] prosecution for an attempt to overthrow a lawfully constituted government does not constitute persecution ... [is not] applicable in countries where a coup is the only means through which a change in the political regime can be effected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. IZATULA
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.