First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional Cuba’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

192 federal appellate · 21 district · 22 state decisions

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 426 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]hat where the Executive Branch, charged as it is with primary responsibility for the conduct of foreign affairs, expressly represents to the Court that application of the act of state doctrine would not advance the interests of American foreign policy, that doctrine should not be applied by the courts. In so doing, we of course adopt and approve the so-called Bernstein exception to the act of state doctrine.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Hunt v. Coastal States Gas Producing Co.

2. “Every sovereign state is bound to respect the independence of every other sovereign state, and the courts of one country will not sit in judgment on the acts of the government of another done within its own territory. Redress of grievances by reason of such acts must be obtained through means open to be availed of by sovereign powers as between themselves.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. v. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia · D'ANGELO v. Petroleos Mexicanos

3. “), which stated the Department's view that the act of state doctrine should not bar consideration of counterclaims in that case”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Banco Nacional Cuba v. Chemical Bank New York Trust Company Banco Nacional Cuba