Lafontant v. Aristide

How courts have described this case

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

• “The language and legislative history of the FSIA, as well as case law, support the proposition that the pre-1976 suggestion of immunity procedure survives the FSIA with respect to heads-of-state.”
• “A head-of-state recognized by the United States government is absolutely immune from personal jurisdiction in United States courts unless that immunity has been waived by statute or by the foreign government recognized by the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran
  District of Columbia· 1999-01-25· cited 233×
• The Republic Of The Philippines v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1995-01-05· cited 93×
• Bashe Yousuf v. Mohamed Samantar
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-11-02· cited 47×
• First American Corp. v. Al-Nahyan
  District of Columbia· 1996-11-26· cited 45×
• Alejandre v. Republic of Cuba
  S.D. Florida· 1997-12-17· cited 41×
• In Re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation
  E.D. New York· 2005-03-28· cited 34×
• In Sik Choi v. Hyung Soo Kim Nancy Soo Lee and Golden Plastics
  Third Circuit· 1995-03-13· cited 30×
• Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2005-03-25· cited 27×
• Leutwyler v. Office of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
  S.D. New York· 2001-08-08· cited 21×
• Tachiona v. Mugabe
  S.D. New York· 2001-10-30· cited 17×
• Bolkiah v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-09-08· cited 15×
• Alicog v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  S.D. Texas· 1994-08-10· cited 14×
• Doe v. Karadzic
  S.D. New York· 1994-09-07· cited 11×
• Jungquist v. Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan
  District of Columbia· 1996-09-20· cited 11×
• Mukaddam v. Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations
  S.D. New York· 2000-09-08· cited 11×
• Abiola v. Abubakar
  N.D. Illinois· 2003-06-17· cited 9×
• Matar v. Dichter
  S.D. New York· 2007-05-02· cited 8×
• El-Hadad v. Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
  District of Columbia· 1999-08-30· cited 8×
• Habyarimana v. Kagame
  W.D. Oklahoma· 2011-10-28· cited 6×
• Tabion v. Mufti
  E.D. Virginia· 1995-02-16· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 3,702×
• The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 3,455×
• Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,062×
• Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 993×
• Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-23· cited 984×
• United States v. Pink
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 508×
• Dolly M. E. Filartiga and Joel Filartiga v. Americo Norberto Pena-Irala
  Second Circuit· 1980-06-30· cited 367×
• First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional De Cuba
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 199×
• In Re Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos Human Rights Litigation. Agapita Trajano Archimedes Trajano v. Ferdinand E. Marcos, and Imee Marcos-Manotoc
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-10-21· cited 136×
• Forti v. Suarez-Mason
  N.D. California· 1987-10-06· cited 75×
• Rios v. Marshall
  S.D. New York· 1981-11-23· cited 52×
• In Re Mr. And Mrs. Doe, Witnesses Before the Grand Jury. Mr. And Mrs. Doe v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1988-10-19· cited 34×
• Farag M. Mohammed Saltany, Muniem Mohamed Ibraheim Al-Mshirgi v. Ronald W. Reagan, President of U.S.
  D.C. Circuit· 1989-09-29· cited 32×
• Libra Bank Limited v. Banco Nacional De Costa Rica
  Second Circuit· 1982-04-12· cited 29×
• Kline v. Kaneko
  S.D. New York· 1988-05-03· cited 29×
• United States v. Noriega
  S.D. Florida· 1990-06-08· cited 28×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings, John Doe 700. United States of America v. (Under Seal)
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-05-05· cited 26×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-09-20· cited 18×
• Chuidian v. Philippine National Bank
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-08-29· cited 17×