Lafontant v. Aristide’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Kadic v. Karadžić (1995), 999 F. Supp. 1 - Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran (1999)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 22 U.S.C. § 254D · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 1603 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1605 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 517 · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a version of the golden rule: a 'concept of doing to others as you would have them do to you....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sec. 2. (a) Liability. — An individual who, under actual or apparent authority, or col- or of law, of any foreign nation — (1) subjects an individual to torture shall, in a civil action, be hable for damages ... or (2) subjects an individual to extrajudicial killing shall, in a civil action, be hable for damages____ (b) Exhaustion of remedies. — A court shall dechne to hear a claim under this section if the claimant has not exhausted adequate and available remedies in the place in which the conduct giving rise to the claim occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An individual who, under actual or apparent authority, or color of law, of any foreign nation— (1) subjects an individual to torture shall, in a civil action, be liable for damages to that individual; or (2) subjects an individual to extrajudicial killing shall, in a civil action, be liable for damages to the individual’s legal representative, or to any person who may be a claimant in an action for wrongful death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.