Savchuck v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• placing burden on applicant to show the likelihood of each link in the chain to establish likelihood of future torture
• “It is the likelihood of all necessary events coming together that must more likely than not lead to torture, and a chain of events cannot be more likely than its least likely link.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is the likelihood of all necessary events coming together that must more likely than not lead to torture, and a chain of events cannot be more likely than its least likely link.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[A]n alien will never be able to show that he faces a more likely than not chance of torture if one link in the chain [of events leading to torture] cannot be shown to be more likely than not to occur.”
• approving agency’s application of J-F-F- to find CAT claim speculative
• “[A]n alien will 4 never be able to show that he faces a more likely than not chance of torture if one link in the chain cannot be shown to be more likely than not to occur.” (quoting In re J-F-F-, 23 I. & N. Dec. 912, 918 n.4 (AG 2006))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cole v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-09-22· cited 436×
• Singh v. US Atty. Gen.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-03-10· cited 260×
• Banegas Gomez v. Barr
  Second Circuit· 2019-04-23· cited 124×
• Chadrick Calvin Cole v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-03-14· cited 115×
• Ortiz-Franco v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2015-04-01· cited 60×
• Singh v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-12-31· cited 52×
• Doe v. Holder
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-08-10· cited 26×
• Manning v. Barr
  Second Circuit· 2020-03-31· cited 26×
• Rangel-Zuazo v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-01-31· cited 4×
• RANGEL-ZUAZO v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-02-13· cited 1×
• Isaacs v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2009-11-16· cited 1×
• John Doe v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-08-10
• 3269
  Second Circuit· 2019-04-23
• Ramirez v. Attorney General of the United States
  Third Circuit· 2011-02-10
• Yafaee v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2009-05-08
• Sufiyan v. Bondi
  Second Circuit· 2026-03-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Vargas-Hernandez v. Gonzales
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-08-03· cited 230×
• C-A
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2006-07-01· cited 170×
• J-F-F
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2006-07-01· cited 169×
• Koudriachova v. Gonzales
  Second Circuit· 2007-06-26· cited 66×
• Phong Thanh Nguyen v. Chertoff
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-13· cited 37×
• DEVISON
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2000-07-01· cited 23×
• Vieira García v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 2001-02-21· cited 17×