Rodriguez-Torres v. Caribbean Forms Manufacturer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
399 F.3d 52 · 2005
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 43 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Tony Gullo Motors I, L.P. and Brien Garcia v. Nury Chapa (2006), Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2010)
41 federal appellate · 43 district · 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he ... is a member of a protected class; (2) possessed the necessary qualifications and adequately performed his ... job; (3) was nevertheless dismissed ...; and (4) [Tyco] sought someone of roughly equivalent qualifications to perform substantially the same work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Law 69 is merely an amplification of the principles contained in Law 100,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve the purpose of combating gender discrimination in employment,”
2 later decisions 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.