Yan Yan Lin v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• describing as tangential those acts that “did not contribute to, or facilitate, the victims’ forced abortions in any direct or active way because they did not cause the abortions, nor did they make it more likely that they would occur.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• “It is settled law that forced abortion is persecution on account 8 of political opinion.”
• “It is settled law that forced abortion is persecution on account of political opinion.”
• “[The persecutor bar] prevents those who have persecuted others (or assisted in the persecution of others) from gaining refugee status and seeking asylum in the United States. . . . [and] seeking withholding of removal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mei Fun Wong v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2011-02-01· cited 164×
• Suzhen Meng v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2014-11-03· cited 12×
• Meng v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2014-11-03

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Weng v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2009-04-14· cited 1,398×
• Jigme Wangchuck v. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration & Customs Enforcement
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-15· cited 1,203×
• Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice, Attorney General Gonzales
  Second Circuit· 2007-01-17· cited 1,146×
• Fedorenko v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 518×
• Negusie v. Holder
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-03· cited 322×
• Balachova v. Mukasey
  Second Circuit· 2008-11-12· cited 62×
• Zhang Jian Xie v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Second Circuit· 2006-01-05· cited 59×