Republic Security Corporation v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Republic Security Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 952 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Pritzker v. Yari (1994), Rg Financial Corp v. Vergara-Nuez
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Francis v. United States · Bailey v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. · Castilleja v. Southern Pacific 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]n interpreting the Civil Code of Puerto Rico . . . authoritative commentaries on analogous provisions of the Spanish Civil Code are more persuasive than common law analogies, which are inapplicable but for purpose of comparative analysis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n cases of discrepancy 'the Spanish text shall be preferred.' "). Further, we see no evidence that the legislature of the Commonwealth intended to change the English name of the System to the RSE name and abandon the ERS name. We would expect to see a clear statement expressing a desire to change the translation, and there is no such statement. This expectation is only reinforced by Section 13, described above. The legislature provided a Statement of Motives to the 2013 amendment, which identified, for example, the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico, the causes of the crisis, and the need to act promptly. Law No. 3 of April 4, 2013, 2013 P.R. Laws 39 -64. And the legislature then explained "[e]ach one of the amendments,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the doctrine of res judicata is ... part of our Civil Law and except for comparative purposes we need not resort to other sources for its analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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