Pieterson v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Tjhere was no proven nexus between the violence in Sierra Leone and Pieter-son’s ethnicity and political beliefs.”
• mere discrimina- tion and harassment of Sierra Leone’s Creoles insufficient to show a pattern and practice of persecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Makhoul v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2004-10-29· cited 104×
• Wan Chien Kho v. Keisler
  First Circuit· 2007-10-16· cited 75×
• Settenda v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2004-08-02· cited 64×
• Sharari v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2005-05-17· cited 59×
• Valentina Mitreva v. Alberto Gonzales
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-08-08· cited 57×
• Rotinsulu v. Mukasey
  First Circuit· 2008-02-08· cited 50×
• Stevens v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1969-05-27· cited 33×
• Sugiarto v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2009-11-10· cited 26×
• Castaneda-Castillo v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2011-03-24· cited 25×
• Touch v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2009-06-04· cited 23×
• Orehhova v. Gonzales
  First Circuit· 2005-07-21· cited 20×
• Sela v. Mukasey
  First Circuit· 2008-03-13· cited 13×
• Ferdinandus v. Gonzales
  First Circuit· 2007-09-27· cited 6×
• Abdel Malek v. Mukasey
  First Circuit· 2008-04-14· cited 5×
• Bakuaya v. Mukasey
  First Circuit· 2008-07-14· cited 3×
• Jalloh v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2004-07-07· cited 2×
• Betancur Lopez v. Gonzales
  First Circuit· 2006-09-06· cited 2×
• Albathani v. INS
  First Circuit· 2003-04-01
• Chebude v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2004-08-10
• Orehova v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2005-07-21

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-22· cited 8,324×
• Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1999-02-26· cited 242×
• Albathani v. INS
  First Circuit· 2003-02-12· cited 204×
• Laeila Nelson, Stephanie Nelson, Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 2000-10-27· cited 176×
• William Alexander Alvarez-Flores v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1990-07-18· cited 125×
• Guzman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 2003-04-28· cited 92×
• Bing Feng Chen v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1996-06-20· cited 61×
• Khalil v. Ashcroft
  First Circuit· 2003-07-24· cited 36×
• Sovann Khem v. John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
  First Circuit· 2003-08-26· cited 19×
• Velasquez-Valencia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 2001-03-30· cited 12×