Sanchez-Trujillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 1571 · 1986
Citation profile
188 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 281 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Shobna Chandar Lata v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2000), Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995)
188 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. § 1105A (§ 106 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. § 1251 (§ 241 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 · Kelly v. Robinson · 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 281 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a collection of people closely affiliated with each other, who are actuated by some common impulse or interest.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ajor segments of the population of an embattled nation, even though undoubtedly at some risk from general political violence, will rarely, if ever, constitute a distinct 'social group' for the purposes of establishing refugee status.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'credible, direct, and specific evidence ... that would support a reasonable fear that the petitioner faces persecution.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.