Acevedo-Luis v. Pagán’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.3d 35 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2022
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Elrod v. Burns · Carey v. Piphus · Farrar v. Hobby · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that the defendant is represented by Commonwealth counsel does not mean the government will satisfy the verdict under Law 9. Law 9 simply provides the Secretary of Justice discretion to indemnify officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may request the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico . . . to subsequently assume the payment of any judgment that may be entered against his person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he was assigned no substantive tasks, had no one to supervise, was given no office space, and had only a few menial duties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres-Martnez
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.