Rodriguez Alvarez v. Bahama Cruise Line, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 312 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Mareno v. Rowe (1990), In Re: Jerasimos Papapanayotou, Esq., Jerasimos Papapanayotou, Esq. v. Jeffrey Sapir, Esq., as Chapter 7 Trustee (2000)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 The Osceola · Sloan v. Hicks · Vaughan v. Atkinson · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough a party [that] loses in the district court has the right to pursue any and all bona fide arguments upon appeal, the right to an appeal does not grant a party a license to clog the appellate docket by advancing meritless arguments for the sole purpose of harassing the prevailing party and subjecting it to undue time and expense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a court of appeals shall determine that an appeal is frivolous, it may award just damages and single or double costs to the appellee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may include the granting of reasonable attorneys' fees to the party forced to defend the frivolous appeal.”
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.