Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably The Mead Corporation v. United States (2002), Natofsky v. City Of New York (2019)
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1602 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1605 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1610 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria · Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. · First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · Corley 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“careful balance between respecting the immunity historically afforded to foreign sovereigns and holding them accountable, in certain circumstances, for their actions,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statute should be construed so that effect is given to all its provisions, so that no part will be inoperative or superfluous, void or insignificant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the property in the United States of a foreign state ... immune from attachment arrest and execution [subject to certain exceptions].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.