Gromer v. Standard Dredging Co.’s Empirical Analysis
224 U.S. 362 · 1912
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 36 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. (1921), Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell (1926)
35 federal appellate · 36 district · 38 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Thomas v. Gay · Stanley v. Schwalby
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of water and submerged land underlying the same in and around the Island of Porto Rico and the adjacent islands and waters now owned by the United States for public purposes be, and the same are hereby, placed under the control of the Government of Porto Rico, to be administered in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as the property enumerated in the preceding section: PROVIDED, that all laws of the United States for the protection and improvement of the navigable waters of the United States and the preservation of the interests of navigation and commerce, except in so far as the same may be locally inapplicable, shall apply to said Island and waters and to its adjacent islands and waters ... (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The distinction made between local control of property and the exercise of government is a substantial one, and is illustrated in cases. Shively v. Bowlby, 152 U. S. 1, 30 ; Thomas v. Gay, 169 U. S. 264 ; Ft. Leavenworth R. R. Co. v. Lowe, 114 U. S. 525 ; Id. 542 ; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Chiles, 214 U. S. 274, 278 ; Reynolds v. People, 1 Colo. 179, 181 ; Scott v. United States, 1 Wyo. 40 ; Territory v. Burgess, 8 Mont. 57 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We agree with the decision of the court that the Territory of Porto Rico has jurisdiction for taxing purposes over the harbor and waters under question and that the use of the property for government purposes does not exempt it from taxation, and therefore do not dissent from anything that is said in the opinion of the court upon those subjects.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.