Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Declaratory Judgment Act does not create jurisdiction because “a declaratory judgment relies on a valid legal predicate.”
• explaining that the Court need not always decide personal jurisdiction if the case can be dismissed entirely on the merits
• noting that a court’s attempt to preclude the enforcement of a foreign judgment in courts of other nations raises a grave “international comity concern[]”
• explaining that the Act \is procedural only . . . and does not create an independent cause of action\
• explaining that it “may” be appropriate to avoid a complex jurisdictional question, and proceed to the merits, when a court “indisputably has personal jurisdiction” over at least some defendants
• reaching the merits and declining to “address the personal jurisdictional claims made by some defendants” where the court had personal jurisdiction over other defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• SPV Osus Ltd. v. UBS AG
  Second Circuit· 2018-02-09· cited 285×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  Second Circuit· 2016-08-08· cited 118×
• ONY, Inc. v. Cornerstone Therapeutics, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-06-26· cited 72×
• Republic of Ecuador v. Douglas MacKay
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-01-31· cited 67×
• Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. v. Town of East Hampton
  Second Circuit· 2016-11-04· cited 67×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  S.D. New York· 2014-03-04· cited 49×
• Chevron Corporation v. Aaron Page
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-09-24· cited 48×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  S.D. New York· 2012-05-14· cited 48×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  S.D. New York· 2013-10-10· cited 36×
• Ray Legal Consulting Group v. Gray
  S.D. New York· 2014-08-08· cited 24×
• Herrick v. Grindr, LLC
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-01-25· cited 21×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  Second Circuit· 2021-03-04· cited 20×
• Norton v. Town of Islip
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-31· cited 20×
• Carr v. DeVos
  S.D. Illinois· 2019-02-25· cited 15×
• LLM Bar Exam, LLC v. Barbri, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2017-09-25· cited 11×
• In re London Silver Fixing, Ltd., Antitrust Litig.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-07-25· cited 11×
• Hummel v. Northwest Trustee Services, Inc.
  W.D. Washington· 2016-03-23· cited 10×
• Pamela Siino v. Foresters Life Insurance and Annuity Company
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-04-01· cited 10×
• Technology Patents LLC v. T-Mobile (Uk) Ltd.
  Federal Circuit· 2012-10-17· cited 9×
• Campbell v. American International Group Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 2015-01-20· cited 9×

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-04· cited 10,096×
• Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1950-06-05· cited 1,625×
• Bruce Ball v. Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt, S.A.
  Second Circuit· 1990-04-27· cited 663×
• UBS Financial Services, Inc. v. West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2011-09-22· cited 258×
• Dow Jones & Company, Inc. v. Harrods Limited, and Mohamed Al Fayed
  Second Circuit· 2003-10-10· cited 189×
• James Williams v. Christopher Artuz
  Second Circuit· 2001-01-03· cited 174×
• Republic of Ecuador v. Chevron Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2011-03-17· cited 133×
• Donovan v. Bierwirth
  Second Circuit· 1982-05-10· cited 124×
• Davis v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-08-16· cited 99×
• Bank Melli Iran Bank Mellat v. Shams Pahlavi, AKA H.I.H. Princess Shams Pahlavi
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-29· cited 86×
• Internation Dairy Foods Ass'n v. Amestoy
  Second Circuit· 1996-08-08· cited 73×
• The Society of Lloyd's v. James Frederick Ashenden
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-11-27· cited 72×
• In The Matter Of The Complaint Of: Rationis Enterprises, Inc. Of Panama
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-03· cited 69×
• Dow Jones & Co., Inc. v. Harrods, Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2002-10-11· cited 69×
• CIBC Mellon Trust Co. v. Mora Hotel Corp. N.V.
  New York Court of Appeals· 2003-05-08· cited 67×
• County of Nassau v. Leavitt
  Second Circuit· 2008-04-25· cited 61×
• Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2002-08-16· cited 58×
• Karaha Bodas Co. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-07· cited 57×
• Jota v. Texaco Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1998-10-05· cited 56×
• Chevron Corp. v. Berlinger
  Second Circuit· 2011-01-13· cited 45×