Fonseca v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 322 · 1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Request for Assistance from Ministry of Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Azar (1988), Young v. United States Department of Justice (1989)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 In re Letters Rogatory Issued by Director of Inspection of Government of India
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal. The order may be made ... upon the application of any interested person....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unlike the juges d’instruction, the Superintendent of Exchange Control is charged to act in the government’s interest to enforce the law. He is required to protect the balance of payments by restraining the outward flow of capital from Colombia. He has extraordinary powers to order and conduct far-reaching investigations. Upon completion of his investigation, he is empowered to determine whether violation of the law has occurred. Although the subject of an investigation may be represented by counsel, the government’s sole representative is the Superintendent himself. The essence of the Superintendent’s responsibility is the direction of the law enforcement agency. Unlike the juge, he has what Judge Friendly referred to in India as ‘an institutional interest in a particular result.’ In re Letters Rogatory (India), sugra, 385 F.2d at 1020 . This interest is inconsistent with the concept of impartial adjudication intended by the term ‘tribunal’.” 620 F.2d at 324 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be used in any judicial proceeding pending in any court in a foreign country.” 4 . This analysis follows the canon of statutory construction that”
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.