Puente v. Spanish Nat. State’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.2d 43 · 1940
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Wacker v. Bisson (1965), Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2010)
16 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on David Kawananakoa v. Ellen Albertina Polyblank · Porto Rico v. Rosaly y Castillo · The Navemar Compania Espanola De Navegacion Maritima Sa v. The Navemar · In re Muir · The Pesaro
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.
“When a court appears to have all the elements of jurisdiction of an action, it is not improper to require of even a sovereign who would oust it of that jurisdiction that he furnish due proof to support his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that under prevailing principles of international law the Spanish Government as a Sovereign State is not subject to suit in your Court without its consent, which in this case it declines to accord.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“how the conceded immunity of a friendly foreign state from suit without its consent is to be presented to a court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.