Traore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2018
20 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 252 · 22 U.S.C. § 254E
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Ex parte Republic of Peru · Claridge Apartments Co. v. Commissioner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a general presumption in the law that an enactment is intended to have purely prospective effect. In the absence of clear legislative intent to the contrary, a statute is not given retrospective effect.... In examining both the statutory language and the legislative history, this presumption must be considered to determine whether there are sufficient indicia of a contrary legislative intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled that the State Department’s determinations concerning an individual’s diplomatic status at a particular time should ordinarily be accepted by the courts. In re Baiz, 135 U.S. 403 , 10 S.Ct. 854 , 34 L.Ed. 222 (1890); Haley v. State, 200 Md. 72, 82-84 , 88 A.2d 312 (1952). Thus, the State Department’s determination that from June 16, 1976, to December 29,1978, the defendant Traore’s status entitled him to immunity from criminal and civil liability should be respected by the judiciary. Similarly, if the State Department had made a contrary determination, that Mr. Traore was not entitled to immunity during the same period because of his diplomatic status during that period, such determination would ordinarily be deemed conclusive.”
1 later decision 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.