Everlasting Development Corp. v. Descartes’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1981
4 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1293 · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 48 U.S.C. § 737 · 48 U.S.C. § 872
Relies on Estep v. United States · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman · Bridges v. Wixon · Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board · Matthews v. Rodgers
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State." (Emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It might well be then, that if the plaintiffs here, as they allege, are without ‘any remedy whatsoever, in the Insular Courts of Puerto Rico’, the instant case would come within the meaning of the term ‘special and extraordinary circumstances’ used by the Court of Appeals in the Paul Smith ease, supra. If that were so, this court by virtue of reading such an implied exception into the Butler Act, could acquire jurisdiction ...” 95 F.Supp. at 958.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All resolutions and findings of the Executive Council and of the Governor of Puerto Rico under the provisions of this Act, shall be final, and no judicial or administrative proceeding shall lie against the same.”
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.