Abiola v. Abubakar’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 1602 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Shaffer v. Heitner · Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state trading corporation, a mining enterprise, a transport organization such as a shipping line or airline, a steel company, a central bank, an export association, a governmental procurement agency or a department or ministry which acts and is suable in its own name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court shall decline to hear a claim if the claimant has not exhausted adequate and available remedies in the place in which the conduct giving rise to the claim occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jean v. Dorélien
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.