Ramirez v. Lagunes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2011
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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1781
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Shaffer v. Heitner · Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · Schlobohm v. Schapiro · Roberson v. Robinson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mexican law has the most significant relationship to the discovery of the assets in question because, should any of the assets be properly characterized as 'community' property, the Mexican divorce court has jurisdiction to divide it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when choice of law questions deal with ownership of personal property, as between spouses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.