Maldonado-Cruz v. U.S. Department of Immigration & Naturalization’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.2d 788 · 1989
Citation profile
60 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Sangha v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1997), Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2000)
60 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. § 1159 (§ 209 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1226 (§ 236 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 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 Rodriguez-Rivera v. U.S. Department of Immigration & Naturalization · Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Turcios v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Damaize-Job 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the Board's decision is silent on the question of credibility . . . we will presume that the Board found the petitioner credible, and . . . proceed to review the Board's decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Maldonado 'is likely to be persecuted by a politically motivated group that frequently engages in terrorist tactics directed at those who refuse to join its armed political struggle.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there [was] no clear indication that the IJ disbelieved the basic facts upon which we make our legal determination now.”
2 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.