Caribbean Transportation Systems, Inc. v. Autoridad De Las Navieras De Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 196 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2018
8 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Bowsher v. SmithKline Corp. · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · Norton Ex Rel. Chiles v. Mathews · Zavala Santiago v. Gonzalez Rivera
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordered [plaintiffs] to serve their amended complaint on each defendant[, and plaintiffs] failed to do so for an additional seven months”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hernández v. Núñez“courts unquestionably have power to dismiss cases for want of prosecution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hernández v. Núñez
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.