Braka v. Bancomer, S.N.C.’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 222 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Callejo v. Bancomer, S.A. (1985), Antares Aircraft, L.P. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria (1991)
16 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 22 U.S.C. § 2370 · 28 U.S.C. § 1602 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1605 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · Dixson v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he accomplishment of interbank transfers, which was the extent of the New York agency's participation, does not change the contractually mandated situs of plaintiffs' property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the less important the implications of an issue are for our foreign relations, the weaker the justification for exclusivity in the political branches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“able to come to complete fruition within the dominion of the [Dubai] government.”
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.