Porto Rico v. Rosaly y Castillo’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 270 · 1913
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 60 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr (1940), Ex parte United States (1916)
78 federal appellate · 60 district · 11 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 David Kawananakoa v. Ellen Albertina Polyblank · Bank of the United States v. Deveaux · Gromer v. Standard Dredging Co. · La Abra Silver Mining Company 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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 7. All inhabitants continuing to reside in Porto Rico who were Spanish subjects on the 11th day of April, 1899, and then resided in Porto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of Porto Rico[], and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such as shall have elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain on or before the 11th day of April 1900, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain entered into on the 11th day of April 1899; and they, together with such citizens of the United States as mey reside in Porto Rico, shall constitute a body politic under the name of the People of Porto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.” 31 Stat. 79 , ch. 191, sec. 7 (Organic Act of 1900; prec. 1 Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated), 48 U.S.C. § 733 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'conforming to the American system with defined and divided powers — legislative, executive and judicial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not open to controversy that, aside from the existence of some exception, the government which the organic act established in Porto Rico is o£ such nature as to come within the general rule exempting a government sovereign in its attributes from being sued without its consent.’’”
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.