23885e Nysa-Ila Pension Trust Fund Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 35 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Filetech Sa Usa v. France Telecom Sa (1998), World Wide Minerals, Ltd. v. Republic of Kazakhstan (2002)
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. · First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · Saudi Arabia v. Nelson · Wrenn v. Gould · Stena Rederi AB v. Comision de Contratos del Comite Ejecutivo General del Sindicato Revolucionario de Trabajadores Petroleros de la Republica Mexicana, S.C.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a significant nexus . . . between the commercial activity in this country upon which the exception is based and a plaintiff's cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ 1] in which the action is based upon a commercial activity earned on in the United States by the foreign state; or [2] upon an act performed in the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere; or [3] upon an act outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act causes a direct effect in the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]efore a federal court may apply corporate law, or the controlled group provisions of ERISA or any other rule of law in a case involving a foreign state or instrumentality of that state, it must, as a threshold matter, find an exception to the [Act]'s grant of sovereign immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates
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.