Rodriques v. Santos’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Giorgio Boyajian v. J (1988), DiLuglio v. Providence Auto Body, Inc. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 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 Republic Molding Corporation v. B. W. Photo Utilities, Doing Business as B. W. Molded Plastics, Republic Molding Corporation v. Alladin Plastics, Inc., Republic Molding Corporation v. Gotham Industries, Inc. · Rowell v. Kaplan · J. Koury Steel Erectors, Inc. of Massachusetts v. San-Vel Concrete Corp. · Hruska v. Gibson · School Committee v. Pawtucket Teachers Alliance, Local No. 930
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal we do not consider arguments that certain evidence is more credible than other evidence. That is a function of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“time lapse alone does not constitute laches[,]”
1 later decision 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.