969 F. Supp. 362 - Beanal v. Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Beanal v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1999), Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Co. (1999)
8 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 18 U.S.C. § 1091 (Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Baker v. Carr · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Monroe v. Pape
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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^]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“TVPA repealed by implication the Alien Tort Statute, either in whole or in part.” The legislative history indicates that Congress intended the TVPA to”
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.