Tei Yan Sun’s Empirical Analysis

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14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States . . . in any case . . . in which the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state . . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 461 F. Supp. 2d 1157 - Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain · Tei Yan Sun v. Taiwan

2. “[t]he commercial character of an activity shall be determined by reference to the nature of the course of conduct or particular transaction or act, rather than by reference to its purpose.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 461 F. Supp. 2d 1157 - Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain · Tei Yan Sun v. Taiwan

3. “Joseph, 830 F.2d at 1024 (emphasis added). Thus understood, the case offers Taiwan little support. While the purpose of Taiwan's tour may not be one that would motivate a private tour promoter, the operation of a cultural tour--the nature of the activity in question--is a type of activity a private party would undertake for profit. 10 Taiwan's position thus rests on De Gruyter. In De Gruyter, the district court found that the compilation of a comprehensive linguistic treatise was non-commercial activity because it was”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tei Yan Sun v. Taiwan