Caz v. Garland’s Empirical Analysis

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]o reverse . . . 'the evidence must not only support the contrary finding, but compel it.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Donis-Hernandez de Cabrera v. Garland · Penafiel-Peralta v. Garland

2. “[he has] suffered past persecution or [has] a well-founded fear of future persecution, [the] application for asylum will be denied if the adjudicator determines that [he] could avoid persecution by internally relocating within the country of removal and, under all the circumstances, it would be reasonable to do so.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Urias-Orellana v. Garland · De Oliveira Rodrigues v. Garland

3. “whether a reasonable factfinder, having considered all the evidence, would be compelled to conclude that [Urias-Orellana] could not safely relocate within”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Urias-Orellana v. Garland