Ivanov v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.3d 5 · 2013
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Lukwago v. Ashcroft · Borja v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Osorio 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]arely will an applicant know the 'exact motivation' of h[er] persecutors -- especially when [s]he was victimized as a young child -- and, 'of course, persecutors may often have more than one motivation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have reached a fairly high threshold of seriousness, as well as some regularity and frequency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
2 later decisions 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.