foreign state
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 462 U.S. 611 - First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · 1983Most cited · 1,320 citing opinions
an "agency or instrumentality of a foreign state.
How often courts cite the cases defining “foreign state”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “foreign state” — 2,559 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1983–1993
an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state").