Torres v. Castillo Alicea

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Statement to the contrary carried only a plurality of the Court
• punitive damages do not exist in Puerto Rico

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Misión Industrial de Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1998-06-30· cited 411×
• Pueblo v. Zayas Rodríguez
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1999-02-17· cited 145×
• Nieves v. University of Puerto Rico
  First Circuit· 1993-10-18· cited 116×
• Noriega Rodríguez v. Hernández Colón
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1992-06-30· cited 109×
• Caquías Mendoza v. Asociación de Residentes de Mansiones de Río Piedras
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1993-08-25· cited 97×
• Defendini Collazo v. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1993-07-15· cited 83×
• Molina v. Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1983-05-11· cited 74×
• Colón Cortés v. Pesquera
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2000-04-19· cited 69×
• Calo Morales v. Cartagena Calo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1991-06-28· cited 63×
• Alicea v. Córdova Iturregui
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1986-06-30· cited 62×
• Asociación Pro Control de Acceso Calle Maracaibo, Inc. v. Cardona Rodríguez
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1997-10-31· cited 46×
• Ramírez de Ferrer v. Mari Brás
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1997-11-18· cited 41×
• Rodríguez Pagan v. Departamento de Servicios Sociales
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1993-02-03· cited 37×
• Colón Flores v. Municipio de Guayama
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1983-04-20· cited 35×
• Delgado Rodríguez v. Departamento de Servicios Contra la Adicción
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1983-04-19· cited 32×
• González Pérez v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1995-04-26· cited 29×
• Farmacias Moscoso, Inc. v. K-mart Corp.
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1995-05-10· cited 29×
• Pueblo v. Ferreira Morales
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1998-12-10· cited 28×
• Pizarro Rivera v. Nicot Santana
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2000-09-12· cited 26×
• Thomas H. Noble v. Corporacion Insular De Seguros, Thomas H. Noble v. Corporacion Insular De Seguros
  First Circuit· 1984-07-05· cited 21×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morales Garay v. Roldán Coss
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1981-02-11· cited 78×
• Figueroa Vda. de Delgado v. Boston Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1973-09-10· cited 68×
• Ángel Galarza v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1979-11-07· cited 55×
• Banco Popular de Puerto Rico v. Corte de Distrito de San Juan
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1944-02-09· cited 50×
• Morales Viuda de Valentín v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1961-12-08· cited 38×
• Tropigas de Puerto Rico v. Tribunal Superior
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1974-10-14· cited 29×
• García Commercial, Inc. v. Secretario de Hacienda
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1958-10-14· cited 22×
• Colonos de Caña de Santa Juana, Inc. v. Junta Azucarera de Puerto Rico
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1954-11-05· cited 20×
• Durand v. Sancho Bonet
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1937-02-17· cited 11×
• Lozada v. Roig
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1952-03-26· cited 10×
• Rosario Cartagena v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1973-09-11· cited 7×
• Valiente y Compañía, S. en C. v. Pueblo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1950-06-23· cited 4×