113 F. Supp. 309 - Mora v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably United States v. Sanchez (1993), Pan American World Airways, Inc. v. Duly Authorized Government of the Virgin Islands (1972)
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 48 U.S.C. § 731 (Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) · 48 U.S.C. § 731B
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Yakus v. United States · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commonwealth relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States was established through bilateral agreement between the people of Puerto Rico and the Congress of the United States. Through Congressional enactment of Public Law 600, 81st Congress, 1950, section 4 of which constitutes the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act, and through the acceptance of that law, in referendum, by the Puerto Rican electorate, and further through the adoption of a constitution of their own choosing, a new form of Federal association, in the nature of a compact, was created between the United States and Puerto Rico. The crucial aspect of this process was its mutual acceptance by the electorate of Puerto Rico and by the Congress of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““a new experiment; it is a turning away from the territorial status; it is something intermediary between the territorial status and statehood.” 98 Cong.Rec. 5128 (1952).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.