Transnational Corp. v. Rodio & Ursillo, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1066 · 1990
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Alternative System Concepts, Inc. v. Synopsys, Inc. (2004), Medlock v. Ortho Biotech, Inc. (1999)
29 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Davis v. United States · Mansell v. Mansell · Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Lyman Lamb Co. · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Mansell v. Mansell
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of Rule 38 is to discourage litigants from wasting the time and resources of both their opponents and the judicial system with arguments that are without merit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether they tended to confuse or mislead the jury on the controlling issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.