Bridas S.A.P.I.C. v. Government of Turkmenistan’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.3d 347 · 2003
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably In Re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (2005), In Re Weekley Homes, L.P. (2005)
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Wilko v. Swan
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) incorporation by reference; (b) assumption; (c) agency; (d) veil-piercing/alter ego; (e) estoppel; and (f) third party beneficiary theory.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Alter ego determinations are highly fact-based and require considering the totality of the circumstances in which the instrumentality functions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Arguments subordinated in a footnote are 'insufficiently addressed in the body of the brief,' and thus are waived.”
4 later decisions 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.