Flores v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.3d 998 · 2012
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. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kungys v. United States · El-Sheikh v. Ashcroft · Ahmadshah v. Ashcroft · Waldron v. Holder · Sow v. Mukasey
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an applicant proves past persecution, the applicant is entitled to a rebuttable presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mejia-Ramos v. Barr
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.