Novoa-Umania v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 1 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1999), Castillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1991)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1158 (§ 208 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. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · United States v. Owens · Rodriguez-Rivera v. U.S. Department of Immigration & Naturalization · Bolanos-Hernandez v. 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must uphold any finding of fact that is supported by 'substantial evidence' "). Board determinations of statutory eligibility for relief from deportation, whether via asylum or withholding, are conclusive if "supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reflected the violent nature of the civil war and ... not ... an ongoing threat of persecution as a guerrilla supporter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congressional mandate and the legal requirement that we show its decisions of this sort considerable respect,”
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.