Beanal v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.3d 161 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2026 · most notably Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Co. (2009), Crecensio Acuna
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc. · Lowrey v. Texas A & M University System · Filartiga v. Pena-Irala · Kadic v. Karadžić
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Principle 2 on the first page of the Rio Declaration asserts that states have the ‘sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies,’ but also have ‘the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment or other States or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.’ ” Beanal, supra, 197 F.3d at 167, n. 6 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Art. 12, 993 U.N.T.S. 3, proclaims only nebulous notions that are infinitely malleable. 79 In support of plaintiffs' argument that the statements and instruments discussed above are part of customary international law, plaintiffs attempt to underscore the universality of the principles asserted by pointing out that they”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although Beanal cites the Rio Declaration to support his claims of environmental torts and abuses under international law, nonetheless, the express language of the declaration appears to cut against Beanal's claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.