Rodriguez v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 24 · 1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Alvarado-Morales v. Digital Equipment Corp. (1988), Collazo v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Manufacturing, Inc. (2010)
12 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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 604 F. Supp. 1036 - Vargas v. Royal Bank of Canada · 637 F. Supp. 536 - Rodriguez v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every employee in commerce, industry or any other business or place of employment ... in which he works for compensation of any kind, under contract without a fixed time, who is discharged from his employment without good cause shall be entitled to receive from his employer, in addition to the salary he may have earned: (a) the salary corresponding to one month as indemnity; (b) an additional progressive indemnity equivalent to one week for each year of service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An employer who suspends an employee from work without cause 'is merely under the obligation of paying, in addition to the salary the employee would have earned, one month's salary [plus one week's salary for each year of service] as indemnity. . . . Not even the remedy of reinstatement is available in these cases.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Statement asserts the right of Puerto Rican workers to more effective protection for their employment through a law “which affords more just remedies commensurate with the damages caused by an unjustified discharge and at the same time discourages the incidence of this sort of discharge.””
1 later decision 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.