Diaz v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 102 · 1923
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois (1956), Darr v. Burford (1950)
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lee v. Chesapeake & O Ry Co · Juan Garzot v. Maria Rios De Rubio No 141 Victor Burset · De Villanueva v. Villanueva · Nadal v. May
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is especially true in dealing with the decisions of a Court inheriting and brought up in a different system from that which prevails here. When we contemplate such a system from the outside it seems like a wall of stone, every part even with all the others, except so far as our own local education may lead us to see subordinations to which we are accustomed. But to one brought up within it, varying emphasis, tacit assumptions, unwritten practices, a thousand influences gained only from life, may give to the different parts wholly new values that logic and grammar never could have got from the books.” 308 U.S. at 470 n. 17, 60 S.Ct. at 353 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court has stated many times the deference due to the understanding of local courts upon matters of purely local concern____ This is especially true in dealing with the decisions of a /Puerto Rico/ court____ Our appellate jurisdiction is not given for the purpose of remodeling the Spanish-American law according to common law conceptions except so far as that law has to bend to the express will of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court has stated many times the deference due to the understanding of the local courts upon matters of purely local concern. . . . This is especially true in dealing with the decisions of a Court inheriting and brought up in a different system from that which prevails here”
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.