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919 F.3d 904 · 2019

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
November 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 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. § 1229A (§ 240 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Heckler v. Chaney · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Negusie v. Holder · D-Muhumed v. U.S. Attorney General

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

  1. “only if the evidence is so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the petitioner statutorily eligible for relief.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[past] persecution or a well-founded fear of [future] persecution on account of ... membership in a particular social group.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “) unsuccessfully applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (”
    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.