Lewis v. Mutond’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1330 (§ 2 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. · Samantar v. Yousuf · Jungquist v. Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan · Doe I v. State of Israel
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is available to diplomats and heads of state and shields them from legal proceedings 'by virtue of his or her current official position, regardless of the substance of the claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Mutond · Doe v. Buratai“[S]uits against officers in their personal capacities must pertain to private action[s],-that is, to actions that exceed the scope of authority vested in that official so that the official cannot be said to have acted on behalf of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Buratai“a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Buratai
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.