Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 955 · 1996
Citation profile
236 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 915 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Fedaa al Najjar Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Attorney General US Department of Justice (2001), Zehatye v. Gonzales (2006)
236 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Heckler v. Campbell · Ghaly 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 915 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the infliction of suffering or harm upon those who differ (in race, religion or political opinion) in a way regarded as offensive.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by credible, direct, and specific evidence in the record, that persecution is a reasonable possibility.”
12 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.