Rivera v. Anaya’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 564 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Owens v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (2001), Stone v. Travelers Corp. (1995)
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 26 U.S.C. § 3101 (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 1854 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 7 U.S.C. § 2041
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Huntington v. Attrill · Leh v. General Petroleum Corp.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1801 et seq. Although they are correct that Rivera was based on AWPA's predecessor statute, the Federal Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act, 7 U.S.C. Secs. 2041-2053 (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual damages or statutory damages up to $500 per plaintiff for violations of the registration, disclosure, record keeping and posting requirements of the Act.”
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.