Perez Cruz v. Crowley Towing and Transportation Company’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 1084 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Oliver v. Digital Equipment Corp. (1988), Hebert v. Mohawk Rubber Co. (1989)
16 federal appellate · 22 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 1301 (Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act) · 48 U.S.C. § 749
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · United States v. Union Central Life Insurance
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of water and submerged lands underlying the same in and around the island of Puerto Rico and the adjacent islands and waters, owned by the United States on March 2, 1917, and not reserved by the United States for public purposes, are placed under the control of the government of Puerto Rico.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e express no opinion on the extent of Puerto Rico’s territorial waters with relation to the rights of other countries. Especially, nothing herein is to be taken as diminishing the rights of the United States in the questioned waters with respect to international relations, national defense, or control over the transit of its own or foreign vessels.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not rest upon the mere allegations ... but ... must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
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.