Lopez-Zeron’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 636 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2014
7 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 Diaz-escobar v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kapcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Ma A26851062 v. US Immigration & Naturalization Service · M.A. [ AXXXXXXXX ] v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Behzadpour v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persecution must be 'on account of' one of the five impermissible reasons in Sec. 1101(a)(42)(A), and must be directed against the individual”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that their fear of persecution is connected to or based on their political neutrality. . . . [not] fear of[ ] general violence and unrest.”
1 later decision 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.