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Acewicz v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis

984 F.2d 1056 · 1993

Citation profile

490
cited by 490 later decisions
May 2019
most recently cited

355 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 490 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ghaly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995), Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995)

355 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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

Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic · Cohen v. United States

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

  1. “a showing by 'credible, direct, and specific evidence' of facts supporting a reasonable fear of persecution”
    91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
    47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.”
    38 later decisions 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.