Gual Morales v. Hernandez Vega’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 730 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic (1984), Fernandez v. Chardon (1982)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Lehman Brothers v. Schein · Kadar Corp. v. Milbury · Graffals Gonzalez v. Garcia Santiago · Hernandez del Valle v. Santa Aponte
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prescription of actions is interrupted by their institution before the courts, by extrajudicial claim of the creditor, and by any act of acknowledgment of the debt by the debtor. 31 L.P.R.A. § 5303.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has stated that an extrajudicial claim, in order to have tolling effect, must be 'precise and specific.' Jimenez v. District Court, 65 P.R.R. 35, 42 (1945).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“citizens of Puerto Rico and well versed in the Spanish underpinnings of Puerto Rican law.”
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.