Bruce v. Christian’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2017
1 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Upjohn Company v. United States · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Lombard v. Marcera · Federal Trade Commission v. Grolier 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fluid composition of the ... population is particularly well suited for status as a class because while the identity of the individuals involved may change, the nature of the harm and the basic parameters of the group affected remain constant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goetz v. Crosson
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.