Guinto v. Marcos’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2014
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sosna v. Iowa · Illinois v. City of Milwaukee · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violation of the First Amendment right of free speech does not rise to the level of such universally recognized rights and so does not constitute a 'law of nations' "); see also Forti v. Suarez-Mason, 672 F.Supp. 1531, 1539-40 (N.D.Cal.1987) ("This 'international tort' must be one which is definable, obligatory (rather than horatory), and universally condemned”
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.