Rodriguez v. Transnave Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 284 · 1993
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. $515,060.42 in United States Currency (1998), Aquamar S.A. v. Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. (1999)
15 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1603 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1606 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act))
Relies on Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria · Schiavone v. Fortune · Scherl v. Fisher · Willy v. Coastal Corp. · Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case ... in which the foreign state has waived its immunity either explicitly or by implication, notwithstanding any withdrawal of the waiver which the foreign state may purport to effect except in accordance with the terms of the waiver....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ourts rarely find that a nation has waived its sovereign immunity without strong evidence that this is what the foreign state intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a foreign state agrees to arbitration in another country; (2) the foreign state agrees that a contract is governed by the laws of a particular country; (3) the state files a responsive pleading without raising the immunity defense.”
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.