Annie Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Moki Mac River Expeditions v. Drugg (2007), Burnett v. Al Baraka Inv. & Dev. Corp. (2005)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria · Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. · Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc. · Saudi Arabia v. Nelson
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the foreign state created the entity for a national purpose; (2) whether the foreign state actively supervises the entity; (3) whether the foreign state requires the hiring of public employees and pays their salaries; (4) whether the entity holds exclusive rights to some right in the [foreign] country; and (5) how the entity is treated under foreign state law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]lthough a party claiming FSIA immunity retains the ultimate burden of persuasion on immunity, it need only present a prima facie case that it is a foreign state; and, if it does, the burden shifts to the party opposing immunity to present evidence that one of the exceptions to immunity applies”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and of the States ....”
3 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.