Estrada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1018 · 1985
Citation profile
54 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey (2008), Arteaga v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1988)
54 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. § 1158 (§ 208 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Phinpathya · Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the immigration judge is in the best position to evaluate an alien's testimony, his or her credibility determinations are to be given much weight”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The absence of harassment of an alien's family tends to reduce the probability of persecution.”
4 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....”
3 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.