Sadat v. Mertes’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 1176 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (2006), Action Sa v. Marc Rich & Co Inc (1991)
30 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 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
Relies on Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Hirabayashi v. United States · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Smith v. Sperling
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only the American nationality of the dual citizen should be recognized”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The dominant considerations which prompted the provision for such jurisdiction appear to have been: 11 (1) Failure on the part of individual states to give protection to foreigners under treaties; ... [and] 12 (2) Apprehension of entanglements with other sovereigns that might ensue from failure to treat the legal controversies of aliens on a national level.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Imagine, for example, a native-born American, born of Japanese parents, domiciled in the State of California, and now engaged in international trade. A dispute could arise in which an Australian customer seeks to sue the American for, say, breach of contract in a federal court in California. The native-born American possibly could claim Japanese citizenship by virtue of his parentage, ... as well as his status as a citizen of California and defeat the jurisdiction of the federal courts because of the absence of complete diversity. Arguably, cases as this are precisely those in which a federal forum should be afforded the foreign litigant in the interest of preventing international friction.”
2 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.