Escobar v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.3d 36 · 2012
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Sok v. Mukasey · Seng v. Holder · Lopez Perez v. Holder · Velásquez v. Ashcroft
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutory withholding of removal under INA § 241(b)(3), 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3), requires an even greater likelihood of persecution than asylum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of widespread violence ... affecting all citizens is not enough to establish persecution on a protected ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing indicate[d] that the guerrillas specifically targeted [petitioner's] father”
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.