Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 435 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 454 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Appleton v. Board of Education (2000), Community Action for Greater Middlesex County, Inc. v. American Alliance Insurance (2000)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 435 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 Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. · Miller v. United Technologies Corp. · Hayes v. Lockhart · Petyan v. Ellis · Burns v. Hartford Hospital
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 454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding a motion for summary judgment, the trial court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ummary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, affidavits and any other proof submitted show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage“an injury [is said to have occurred] when a party suffers some form of actionable harm.”
5 later decisions 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.