Khudaverdyan v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.3d 1101 · 2015
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
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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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Castillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Sagaydak v. Gonzales · Cole v. Holder
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the persecutor was motivated by a belief that the petitioner held the political opinion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singh v. Barr“[p]urely personal retribution is ... not persecution on account of political opinion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singh v. Barr“against individuals whose corruption was aberrational.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singh 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.