Acewicz v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 1056 · 1993
Citation profile
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 ·
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.
“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“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“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.