Frontera Fruit Co. v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.2d 293 · 1937
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably U.S. Express Lines, Ltd. v. Higgins (2002), Incas and Monterey Printing and Packaging Ltd v. M/v Sang Jin Incas and Monterey Printing and Packaging Ltd (1984)
24 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Shea · Staunton v. Goshorn · The Amiral Cecille · The Fort Gaines · The Golden Rod
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gravamen of the right to recover damages for wrongful seizure or detention of vessels is the bad faith, malice, or gross negligence of the offending party. The reasons for the award of damages are analogous to those in cases of malicious prosecution. The defendant is re-, quired to respond in damages for causing to be done through the process of the court that which would have been wrongful for him to do himself, having no legal justification therefor and acting in bad faith, with malice, or through a wanton disregard of the legal rights of his adversary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The gravamen of the right to recover damages for wrongful seizure or detention of vessels is the bad faith, malice, or gross negligence of the offending party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“advice of competent counsel, honestly sought and acted upon in good faith is alone a complete defense to an action for malicious prosecution.”
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.