Bacardi Corporation of America v. Domenech’s Empirical Analysis
311 U.S. 150 · 1940
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Medellin v. Texas (2008)
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 16 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
reviewedSancho v. Bacardi Corp. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Edye v. Robertson · Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. · Frost v. Corporation Commission · United States v. Belmont
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liberally to give effect to the purpose which animates”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a ratifying State cannot escape the obligations of the treaty and deny protection by the simple device of embracing its own nationals in that denial. That would make a mockery of the treaty * * ” [ 311 U.S. 150 , 61 S.Ct. 227 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The exigencies of local trade and manufacture which prompted the enactment of the statute cannot save it, as the United States in exercising its treaty making power dominates local policy.”
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.