Republic of Sudan v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
587 U.S. 1 · 2019
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably 139 S. Ct. 2319 - United States v. Davis (2019), Xu Ming Li v. Ashcroft (2004)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 16 U.S.C. § 3102 · 16 U.S.C. § 3103 · 28 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1605A · 28 U.S.C. § 1608 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1963 · 54 U.S.C. § 100751
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc. · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury · Reid v. Covert
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difficult line-drawing problems that flow from respondents' interpretation of § 1608(a)(3) counsel in favor of maintaining a clear, administrable rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“harmonizes the various provisions in [it] and avoids the oddities that [a contrary] interpretation would create.”
1 later decision 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.