Notable numbers
Seven lists, each drawn from the same published decisions, and each with an address of its own.
Rates are ranked by the furthest their true rate could plausibly be from the national average, not by the raw percentage, so a judge with five decisions cannot outrank one with two hundred. Each list stops where a judge stops being distinguishable from that average, which is why none of them runs to a round number. Counts are ranked as they stand. These are records of decisions already made — they are not predictions, and they are not a way to shop for a judge.
The lowest asylum grant rates
Judges who granted asylum least often, ranked by the highest their rate could plausibly be rather than by the raw percentage — so a judge with a handful of decisions cannot displace one with hundreds.
Top 50 of 512 that qualified.
The highest asylum grant rates
Judges who granted asylum most often, ranked by the lowest their rate could plausibly be — the same guard against small samples, pointed the other way.
Top 50 of 303 that qualified.
The heaviest dockets
Judges who completed the most cases of any kind since 2021. This is a count, not a rate, so it is ranked as it stands.
Top 50 of 1,161 that qualified.
Most asylum granted by a Republican appointee
Total grants — not a rate — among judges appointed under a Republican administration. The list exists because appointing party is a weak predictor of how a judge decides, and this is what that looks like in the records.
Top 50 of 417 that qualified.
The lowest rates among Democratic appointees
The same point from the other side: judges appointed under a Democratic administration who granted asylum least often.
Top 50 of 224 that qualified.
The busiest asylum courts
Courts by the number of asylum decisions made on the merits since 2021, with each court's own grant rate beside it.
Top 50 of 73 that qualified.
Judges furthest from their own court
Where one judge's asylum rate sits far from the rate of the court around them. Ranked by the part of the gap the evidence supports, so a small docket cannot outrank a large one on a number that might be noise; judges whose range still overlaps their court's rate are left out entirely.
Top 50 of 705 that qualified.
Decisions from 2021 through 06/01/2026. All seven lists are also the third tab of EOIR Insights, beside the court and Board records they are drawn from.