People of the State of New York Ex Rel Abraham Kopel v. Theodore a Bingham’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 468 · 1909
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 21 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (1937), Porto Rico v. Rosaly y Castillo (1913)
21 federal appellate · 21 district · 15 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 Downes v. Bidwell · Thompson v. State of Utah · Dorr v. United States · Reggel · Hyatt v. People ex rel. Corkran
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A portion of the country not included within the limits of any state, and not yet admitted as a state into the Union, but organized under the laws of Congress with a separate legislature, under a territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States/””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . Porto Rico is a completely organized Territory . . .”
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.