First National Bank of Boston v. Banco Nacional De Cuba’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 895 · 1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Bayerische Landesbank, New York Branch v. Aladdin Capital Management LLC (2012), Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Chase Manhattan Bank (1981)
9 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 Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Desist v. United States · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba · United States v. First National City Bank
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' We Resolve: First: To order the nationalization, by expropriation, and, consequently, award to the Cuban Government, in absolute ownership, all the assets, rights and shares deriving from the utilization thereof, especially the banks, including all their branches and agencies located in Cuba, which are the property of the following legal persons: 1— The First National City Bank of New York 2— The First National Bank of Boston 3— The Chase Manhattan Bank Second: Consequently, the Cuban Government is substituted for the legal persons named in the foregoing paragraph as to the aforesaid assets, rights and shares, as well as the assets and liabilities of the aforementioned companies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where (1) the Executive Branch has provided a Berstein letter advising the courts that it believes act of state doctrine need not be applied, (2) there is no showing that an adjudication of the claim will interfere with delicate foreign relations, and (3) the claim against the foreign sovereign is asserted by way of counterclaim and does not exceed the value of the sovereign’s claim, adjudication of the counterclaim for expropriation of the defendant’s property is not barred by the act of state doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Chase”); Banco Para el Comercio Exterior de Cuba v. First National City Bank, 658 F.2d 913 (2d Cir.1981); First Bank of Boston (International) v. Banco Nacional de Cuba, 658 F.2d 895 (2d Cir.1981); Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Irving Trust Co., Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Manufacturers Trust Co., 658 F.2d 903 (2d Cir.1981) ("Chemical I”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.