Khan v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.3d 1 · 2013
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 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 Laeila Nelson Stephanie Nelson Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Harutyunyan v. Gonzales · Mihaylov v. Ashcroft · Ouk v. Gonzales · Sompotan 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly unwilling to overturn a finding of no government connection where the local authorities have appropriately responded to incidents of violence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality . . . who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well- founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomez-Medina v. Barr“arrest[ed] Taliban members and call[ed] on the Pakistani army to secure the area”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Justo v. Sessions
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.