Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee v. L'Union Atlantique S.A. D'Assurances’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 357 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Time Share Vacation Club v. Atlantic Resorts, Ltd. (1984), United States of America v. Swiss American Bank Ltd Swiss American National Bank Inter-Maritime Bank Geneva (2001)
18 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Angel v. Bullington · Kolender v. Lawson · Brakeman v. Potomac Insurance Co.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the plaintiff's claim is not clearly frivolous, the district court should ordinarily allow discovery on jurisdiction in order to aid the plaintiff in discharging that burden.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] plaintiff who is a total stranger to a corporation should not be required, unless he has been undiligent, to try [personal jurisdiction] on affidavits without the benefit of full discovery.”
5 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.