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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”

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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

  1. 1993·507 U.S. 349 - Saudi Arabia v. Nelson[p13]· cited 1,279×

    an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state").