Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.3d 163 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (2010), Presbyterian Church v. Talisman Energy, Inc. (2009)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 32 · 21 U.S.C. § 355 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · West v. Atkins · Van Dusen v. Barrack
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A forum in which defendants are amenable to service of process and which permits litigation of the dispute is generally adequate. Such a forum may nevertheless be inadequate if it does not permit the reasonably prompt adjudication of a dispute, if the forum is not presently available, or if the forum provides a remedy so clearly unsatisfactory or inadequate that it is tantamount to no remedy at all.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“such a 'close nexus between the State and the challenged action' that seemingly private behavior 'may be fairly treated as that of the State itself.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“bears the burden of establishing that a presently available and adequate alternative forum exists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.