Stena Rederi AB v. Comision de Contratos del Comite Ejecutivo General del Sindicato Revolucionario de Trabajadores Petroleros de la Republica Mexicana, S.C.’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 380 · 1991
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Siderman Blake v. Republic of Argentina Sa (1992), Moran v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1994)
56 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1330 (§ 2 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1603 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 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. § 1609 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hanson v. Denckla · Shaffer v. Heitner · Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based ... upon an act outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere” and that the act”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there must be a connection between the plaintiff's cause of action and the commercial acts of the foreign sovereign.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“14 means either a regular course of commercial conduct or a particular commercial transaction or act. The commercial character of an activity shall be determined by reference to the nature of the course of conduct or particular transaction or act, rather than by reference to its purpose. 15 28 U.S.C. § 1603(d). The drafters of the FSIA envisioned that the courts”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.