Robles v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 562 · 1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2011
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Field · King v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America · Taylor v. Allen · Succession of Vance · Miller v. . Miller
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, although nothing but subsequent marriage will legitimate a child born out of wedlock in Puerto Rico (1. Civil Code of Puerto Rico, Sec. 482, 31 L.P.R.A.) it is true that the Puerto Rican Code allows an illegitimate child to inherit his proportion of his father’s property, if, his father has ‘recognized’ him as his own, Sec. 504; and, as we have said, the plaintiff was so ‘recognized’ and would have inherited his father’s person property ‘(in Puerto Rico),’ had his father been domiciled in Puerto Rico when he died. — Sec. 506(3). Thus, the issue is narrowed to whether the plaintiff would have inherited his share of his father’s personal property when his father died a resident of New York, because, although not legitimate, he would have done so, if his father had been domiciled in Puerto Rico.” (Emphasis supplied.) “(1) The question whether ‘legitimacy’ is a condition upon the inheritance of the father’s personal property in New York regardless of any right of inheritance elsewhere, has come up only three times, etc.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That duty is to apply in the absence of any determination by the New York courts, ‘such law as would be applied’ by them ‘in determining the devolution of intestate personal property’ of the decedent in a proper action for such a determination in the state court.” [Italics supplied.]”
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.