Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2016
3 district · 3 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
Relies on Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc. · First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · Warren III v. City of Carlsbad · Morrison v. Olson · In re Miller
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A civil action against a foreign state ... may be brought ... (3) in any judicial district in which the agency or instrumentality is licensed to do business or is doing business, if the action is brought against an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in section 1603(b) of this title [28 USCS § 1603(b) ]; or (4) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia if the action is brought against a foreign state or political subdivision thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I] the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state; or [2] upon an act performed in the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere, or [3] 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 a direct effect in the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Scholarship sponsors often exercise a certain degree of control over the students who receive their scholarships, including terminating the scholarship if the student’s grades fall below a designated level or if the student acts in derogation of other scholarship terms. However, imposition of scholarship conditions is far from the direction and supervision found in the traditional employment setting.”
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.