Mastafa v. Chevron Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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13 federal appellate · 8 district ·

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

1. “alleged conduct by anyone — U.S. citizen or not — ... took place in the United States and aided and abetted a violation of the law of nations”). 27 . Interestingly, to the extent the term”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Mujica v. AirScan Inc. · Doe v. Drummond Co.

2. “Chevron's [Iraqi] oil purchases, financing of [Iraqi] oil purchases, and delivery of oil to another U.S. company, all within the United States, as well as the use of a New York escrow account and New York-based 'financing arrangements' to systematically enable illicit payments to the Saddam Hussein regime that allegedly facilitated that regime's violations of the law of nations.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Doe v. Nestle, S.A. · John Doe v. Nestle, S.A.

3. “[E]ven where the claims touch and concern the territory of the United States, they must do so with sufficient force to displace the presumption against extraterritorial application. Corporations are often present in many countries, and it would reach too far to say that mere corporate presence suffices.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In re Arab Bank, PLC Alien Tort Statute Litigation · Licci ex rel. Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank, SAL