Weltover Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Dole Food Company Inc v. Watts (2002), Filetech Sa Usa v. France Telecom Sa (1998)
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. · DiCarlantonio 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in which the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state; or upon an act performed in the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere; or upon an act outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act causes direct effect in the united States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“often look to the place where legally significant acts giving rise to the claim occurred”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to be direct, an effect need not be substantial or foreseeable, but rather must simply follow as an immediate consequence of the defendant's activity.”
2 later decisions 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.