Warfaa v. Ali’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Baker v. Carr · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the term 'torture' means any act, directed against an individual ... by which severe pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering arising only from or inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions), whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on that individual ... (2) mental pain or suffering refers to prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from- (A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; ... (C) the threat of imminent death; or (D) the threat that another individual will imminently be subjected to death, [or] severe physical pain or suffering....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Boniface v. Viliena
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.