Municipality of Ponce v. Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in Porto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
210 U.S. 296 · 1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Simpson v. Shepard (1913)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
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 Davidson v. New Orleans · Robertson v. Baldwin · Charles Cotting v. A a Godard · The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he Roman Catholic Church has been recognized as possessing legal personality by the treaty of Paris, and its property rights solemnly safeguarded.'”
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.