Sancho v. Texas Co’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 463 · 1940
Citation profile
176 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Fornaris v. Ridge Tool Co. (1970), Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Harriet Bouslog Sawyer (1959)
176 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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
reviewedTexas Co. v. Sancho (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kalb v. Feuerstein · Diaz v. Gonzalez · Sancho v. Yabucoa Sugar Co · De Villanueva v. Villanueva
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)o justify reversal in such cases, the error must be clear or manifest; the interpretation must be inescapably wrong; the decision must be patently erroneous.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Taxing acts of Puerto Rico are purely local and the traditional reluctance of this Court to overturn constructions of such local statutes by local courts is particularly applicable to interpretations of Puerto Rican statutes by Puerto Rican tribunals. Orderly development of the government of Puerto Rico as an integral part of our government system is well served b}r a careful and consistent adherence to the legislative and judicial policy of deferring to the local procedure and tribunals of the Island.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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 legal 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.”
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.