Carmichael v. United Technologies Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 109 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Kadic v. Karadžić (1995), Cabello v. Fernández-Larios (2005)
11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991)
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Williamson v. Tucker · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Filartiga v. Pena-Irala · Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his case, however, does not require that we stand up and be counted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by consulting the work of jurists writing professedly on public law or by the general usage and practice of nations; or by judicial decisions recognizing and enforcing that law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“held that the standards by which nations regulate their dealings with one another inter se constitutes the 'law of nations.'”
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.