Ngugi v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.3d 1132 · 2016
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2023
8 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. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · M-E-V-G · Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder · W-G-R
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) composed of members who share a common immutable characteristic, (2) defined with particularity, and (3) socially distinct within the society in question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ngugi v. Lynch , 826 F.3d 1132 , 1138 (8th Cir. 2016), quoting Matter of M-E-V-G- , 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 , 237 (BIA 2014).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Marroquin-Ochoma v. Holder , 574 F.3d 574 , 577 (8th Cir. 2009), quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(42)(A) .”
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.