Sarei’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
August 2017
most recently cited
6 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Foman v. Davis · Baker v. Carr · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Bell v. Hood
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [Statement of Interest] begins by noting that the State Department has not been “invited” to comment on the applicability of the political question doctrine itself. It next states that “[i]n our judgment, continued adjudication of the claims ... would risk a potentially serious adverse impact on the peace process, and hence on the conduct of our foreign relations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the international norm of exhaustion does not speak to the hybrid situation [in an ATCA case] where a domestic court in a sovereign country, rather than an international tribunal, is charged with adjudicating violations of customary international law through the vehicle of a civil suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.