Benitez-Pons v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 54 · 1998
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 48 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Oscar Socop-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001), Pearl v. City of Long Beach (2002)
29 federal appellate · 48 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. · Charles Clauson v. Robert D. Smith
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]quitable tolling is unavailable where a party fails to exercise due diligence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts weigh five factors in assessing claims of equitable tolling: (1) the lack of actual notice of the filing requirement; (2) the lack of constructive notice of the filing requirement; (3) the diligence in pursuing one's rights; (4) the absence of prejudice to the defendant; and (5) the plaintiff's reasonableness in remaining ignorant of the filing requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“muddle[d] the doctrines of equitable estoppel and equitable tolling [but] . . . assert[ed] elements of both doctrines, [the court] will analyze the equitable arguments under both estoppel and tolling theories”
2 later decisions 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.