Bowoto v. Chevron Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.3d 1116 · 2010
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from California Northern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act))
Relies on Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain · The Harrisburg · Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. · Offshore Logistics, Inc. v. Tallentire · Mobil Oil Corporation v. Higginbotham K
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Liability. — An individual who, under actual or apparent authority, or color of law, of any foreign nation— (1) subjects an individual to torture shall, in a civil action, be liable for damages to that individual; or (2) subjects an individual to extrajudicial killing shall, in a civil action, be liable for damages to the individual’s legal representative, or to any person who may be a claimant in an action for wrongful death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff cannot now claim the district court erred by not providing an instruction they never offered.”
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.