Jota v. Texaco Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that deference to foreign state’s position on matters that took place within its territory is “inherent in the concept of comity”
• holding that deference to foreign state’s position on matters that took place within its territory is “inherent in the concept of comity”
• holding that the Ecuadorian ambassador “enjoyed apparent authority, and [defendant] and the District Court were entitled to rely on his representations unless they were actually aware that he lacked such authority”
• vacating dismissal, on forum non conveniens, comity, and failure to join indispensable party grounds, of action by Ecuadorians against American oil company for injuries that allegedly resulted from action in Ecuador
• advising Ecuador that it must waive sovereign immunity to intervene, which Ecuador declined to do
• “On remand, ... the District Court should independently reweigh the factors relevant to a forum non conveniens dismissal, rather than simply rely on Sequihua”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
  Second Circuit· 2010-09-17· cited 417×
• Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
  Second Circuit· 2000-09-14· cited 319×
• Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo
  Second Circuit· 2012-01-26· cited 135×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  Second Circuit· 2016-08-08· cited 118×
• Luis Mujica v. Airscan Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-11-12· cited 114×
• Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 2007-10-12· cited 101×
• Aquamar S.A. v. Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-06-30· cited 98×
• Odyssey Re (London) Ltd. v. Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2000-02-25· cited 88×
• Finanz Ag Zurich v. Banco Economico S.A.
  Second Circuit· 1999-10-07· cited 80×
• Republic of Ecuador v. Robert E. Hinchee
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-12-18· cited 80×
• GDG Acquisitions, LLC v. Government of Belize
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-04-22· cited 66×
• Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2002-08-16· cited 52×
• Laker Airways, Inc. v. British Airways, PLC
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-07-30· cited 49×
• Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
  S.D. New York· 2014-03-04· cited 49×
• ESI, Inc. v. Coastal Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1999-08-31· cited 48×
• Chevron Corporation v. Aaron Page
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-09-24· cited 48×
• Sarei v. Rio Tinto PLC.
  C.D. California· 2002-07-09· cited 45×
• Bano v. Union Carbide Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2001-11-15· cited 43×
• Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan
  S.D. New York· 2003-08-08· cited 31×
• In Re Chevron Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2010-11-10· cited 30×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-10· cited 5,292×
• Landgraf v. USI Film Products
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-26· cited 4,825×
• Bradley v. School Bd. of Richmond
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-15· cited 1,967×
• Pt United Can Company Ltd. v. Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., F/k/a Continental Can Company Richard Krzyzanowski John W. Conway
  Second Circuit· 1998-02-25· cited 260×
• Lawrence Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Chater
  Supreme Court· 1996-01-08· cited 158×
• in All Cases which have been Consolidated into this Proceeding by Order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation v. Union Carbide Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1987-01-14· cited 122×
• Dominic Murray v. British Broadcasting Corporation and Bbc Lionheart Television International
  Second Circuit· 1996-04-10· cited 112×
• Pravin Banker Associates, Ltd. v. Banco Popular Del Peru and the Republic of Peru
  Second Circuit· 1997-03-25· cited 82×
• Envirotech Corporation and Chemico Air Pollution Control Corp. v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Envirotech Corporation, on Counterclaim-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1984-02-17· cited 65×
• Jota v. Texaco Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1998-10-05· cited 58×
• Department of the Interior v. South Dakota
  Supreme Court· 1996-10-15· cited 37×
• Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Company
  Second Circuit· 1981-05-29· cited 27×
• Sequihua v. Texaco, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 1994-01-27· cited 25×
• Aquinda v. Texaco, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1996-11-12· cited 22×
• Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1997-08-12· cited 12×
• Schmidt v. Espy
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 7×