act of state doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 406 U.S. 759 - First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional Cuba · 1972Most cited · 426 citing opinions
The doctrine precludes any review whatever of the acts of the government of one sovereign State done within its own territory by the courts of another sovereign State
How often courts cite the case defining “act of state doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “act of state doctrine” — 417 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.