Joo v. Japan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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

1. “serious implications for stability in the region.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. J.Y.C.C. v. Doe Run Resources, Corp. · A.O.A. v. Rennert

2. “exercising jurisdiction over particular petitioners in connection with their alleged conduct, that opinion might well be entitled to deference as the considered judgment of the Executive on a particular question of foreign policy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.Y.C.C. v. Doe Run Resources, Corp. · A.O.A. v. Rennert

3. “... [1] a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue.to a coordinate political department; or [2] a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving [the issue]; or [3] the impossibility of deciding the issue without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or [4] the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or [5] an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or [6] the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Whiteman v. Dorotheum Gmbh & Co. Kg · Doe I v. State of Israel