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Manoharan v. Rajapaksa’s Empirical Analysis

711 F.3d 178 · 2013

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2024
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Malley v. Briggs · Mobil Oil Corporation v. Higginbotham K · United States v. Texas · Samantar v. Yousuf · Republic of Mexico v. Hoffman

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “President Rajapaksa, as the sitting head of a foreign state, enjoys head of state immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts in light of his current status.”) (emphasis added). . Giraldo, 808 F.Supp.2d at 249 . . Matar, 563 F.3d at 14 . . PL Opp. at 25. . Id. at 23 . . See The Schooner Exch. v. McFaddon, 11 U.S. 116, 137 , 7 Cranch 116 , 3 L.Ed. 287 (1812) (”
    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.