refugee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 480 U.S. 421 - Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · 1987Most cited · 8,667 citing opinions
(A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular so
How often courts cite the case defining “refugee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “refugee” — 8,625 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.