Marroquin-Ochoma v. Holder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a general political motive underlying a gang’s actions is insufficient to show the gang believes resistance to those actions is based on an anti- gang political opinion
• upholding determination that petitioner who received threats after refusing to join gang, without more, was not persecuted on account of an anti-gang political opinion
• denying asylum to a petitioner who left Guatemala because gang members threatened and pressured her to join the gang
• mere refusal to join gang, without more, does not compel finding that gang’s threats were on account of imputed political opinion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Castro v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2010-03-02· cited 124×
• Espinosa-Cortez v. Attorney General of United States
  Third Circuit· 2010-06-02· cited 82×
• Constanza v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-08-01· cited 52×
• Mayorga-Vidal v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2012-03-16· cited 45×
• Paul Ngugi v. Loretta E. Lynch
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-06-27· cited 34×
• Hernandez v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-06-04· cited 24×
• Carlos Chilel v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2015-03-10· cited 24×
• Ortiz-Puentes v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-12-01· cited 23×
• Sulmy Garcia-Milian v. Loretta E. Lynch
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-06-17· cited 20×
• Carlos Mayorga-Rosa v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III
  Eighth Circuit· 2018-04-24· cited 20×
• Felix Somoza-Garcia v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-03-19· cited 19×
• Ribelino Avendano v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-10-27· cited 12×
• Hugo Aguilar Montecinos v. Merrick B. Garland
  Eighth Circuit· 2023-02-10· cited 12×
• Efren Uriostegui-Teran v. Merrick Garland
  Eighth Circuit· 2023-07-06· cited 10×
• Hernandez v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-09-01· cited 9×
• Luis Amadeo Prieto-Pineda v. William P. Barr
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-05-28· cited 9×
• Francis Gathungu v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2013-08-06· cited 8×
• Maleni Gutierrez Molina v. Matthew G. Whitaker
  Eighth Circuit· 2018-12-12· cited 7×
• Delmy Carolina Gomez-Garcia v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-06-28· cited 6×
• Ibrahim Mwangi v. William P. Barr
  Eighth Circuit· 2019-08-19· cited 4×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-22· cited 8,324×
• Yueqing Zhang v. Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General
  Second Circuit· 2005-10-13· cited 2,667×
• Parussimova v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-01-26· cited 543×
• S-E-G
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2008-07-01· cited 271×
• Carlos Silva-Rengifo v. Attorney General of the United States United States Department of Homeland Security
  Third Circuit· 2007-01-09· cited 194×
• Ramos-Lopez v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-04-16· cited 177×
• S-V
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2000-07-01· cited 175×
• Sandra Lorena Menjivar v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States of America, 1
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-07-29· cited 103×
• Imad Ibrahim Mouawad v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States of America
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-05-11· cited 92×
• Cesar Julio Chavez Dominguez v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-07-15· cited 91×
• Mohamed Turay v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-04-26· cited 82×
• Gabriel Setiadi v. Alberto R. Gonzales, 1 Attorney General of the United States of America
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-02-03· cited 81×
• Malonga v. Mukasey
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-11-03· cited 69×
• Hafza H. Hassan v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-05-07· cited 54×
• Purwantono v. Gonzales
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-08-17· cited 41×
• Badiatu Tunis v. Alberto R. Gonzales
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-05-15· cited 34×
• Jorge Ines Gomez Sonia Magnolia Gomez Jorge Osvaldo Gomez v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-10-10· cited 19×
• Jose Luiz Bartolo-Diego v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-06-27· cited 18×
• Carmenatte-Lopez v. Michael B. Mukasey
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-03-03· cited 9×
• Khilan v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-03-05· cited 7×