Roco Carriers, Ltd. v. M/V Nurnberg Express’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 1292 · 1990
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Eagle Properties, Ltd. v. Scharbauer (1991), Borden, Inc. v. Meiji Milk Products Co. (1990)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1330 (§ 2 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · United States v. Sherwood · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Aldinger v. Howard
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The established rule of this Circuit has been that pendent party jurisdiction is available in admiralty cases in those instances in which the state law claim against the additional party arises out of a common nucleus of operative facts with the admiralty claim and the resolution of the factually connected claims in a single proceeding would further the interests of conserving judicial resources and fairness to the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nterlocutory decrees . . . determining the rights and liabilities of the parties to admiralty cases in which appeals from final decrees are allowed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once common practice ... of referring the determination of damages to a master or commissioner after resolving the question of liability,”
3 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.