Bigio v. Coca-Cola Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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24 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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

1. “We held in Kadic that war crimes and acts of genocide are actionable under the Alien Tort Claims Act without regard to state action, but that 'torture and summary execution — when not perpetrated in the course of genocide or war crimes — are proscribed by international law only when committed by state officials or under color of law’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 244 F. Supp. 2d 289 - Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc. · 221 F. Supp. 2d 1116 - Sarei v. Rio Tinto PLC.

2. “[t]he district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robinson v. Government of Malaysia · Bano v. Union Carbide Corp.

3. “Because the [ATCA] requires that plaintiffs plead a 'violation of the law of nations' at the jurisdictional threshold, this statute requires a more searching review of the merits to establish jurisdiction than is required under the more flexible 'arising under' formula of section 1331 [federal question jurisdiction].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robinson v. Government of Malaysia