Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
324 federal appellate · 58 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 817 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985), Medellin v. Texas (2008)
324 federal appellate · 58 district · 35 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAvigliano v. Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · Kolovrat v. Oregon · Maximov v. United States
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 817 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application of the words of the treaty according to their obvious meaning effects a result inconsistent with the intent or expectations of its signatories.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although not conclusive, the meaning attributed to treaty provisions by the Government agencies charged with their negotiation and enforcement is entitled to great weight.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraordinarily strong contrary evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.