Quiroga v. Hasbro, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 346 · 1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2017
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Brown v. United States · Hill v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company · Quiroga v. Hasbro, Inc. · Hilmon Company v. Hyatt International · Hall's Motor Transit Company Central Transport Inc
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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“It is a hollow victory indeed for an appellee who successfully defends a frivolous appeal, if it is then further penalized by fee payments to its own attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prosser v. Prosser
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.