Souffront v. La Compagnie Des Sucreries De Porto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
217 U.S. 475 · 1910
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 59 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 374 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Montana v. United States (1979)
125 federal appellate · 59 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Thompson v. State of Utah · Kennon v. Gilmer · Lovejoy v. Murray · Massie v. Watts
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 374 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strangers to the cause.... [O]ne who prosecutes or defends a suit in the name of another to establish and protect his own right, or who assists in the prosecution or defense of an action in aid of some interest of his own ... is as much bound ... as he would be if he had been a party to the record.”
20 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.