Gerritsen v. Consulado General De Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 340 · 1993
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Good Wwa v. Ohio Edison Company (1998), Transaero, Inc. v. La Fuerza Aerea Boliviana (1994)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1330 (§ 2 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1351 · 28 U.S.C. § 1608 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Reiter v. Cooper · Morgan v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Koch Refining Co. v. Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. · Gibson 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he touchstone for determining the commencement of the limitations period is notice: a cause of action generally accrues when a plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of his action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“turns on what a reasonable person should know, a mixed question of law and fact is presented which we review for clear error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any other functions entrusted to a consular post by the sending State which are not prohibited by the laws and regulations of the receiving State or ... which are referred to in the international agreements in force between the sending State and the receiving State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Clement · Park v. Shin
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.