Fermin Fonseca Flores v. Robert R. Prann, Jaime Fardonk Vazquez v. Porto Rico Lighterage Co., Roberto Galindo Ramos v. San Juan Dredging Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably Santiago v. Sea-Land Service, Inc. (1973), Fanfan v. Berwind Corporation (1973)
1 federal appellate · 18 district ·
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 Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · Downes v. Bidwell · De Lima v. Bidwell · Washington v. W. C. Dawson & Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [I]f Congress sees fit it may supplant the local legislation as it applies to local navigable waters by making the Jones Act and the General Maritime Law of unseaworthiness specifically applicable in Puerto Rican waters, but it is not our function to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[w]e conclude, therefore, that the rules of the admiralty and maritime law of the United States are presently in force in the navigable waters of the United States in and around the island of Puerto Rico to the extent that they are not locally inapplicable either because they were not designed to apply to Puerto Rican waters or because they have been rendered inapplicable to these waters by inconsistent Puerto Rican legislation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When an employer insures his workmen or employees in accordance with this chapter, the right herein established to obtain compensation shall be the only remedy against the employer; . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.