Wing Wa v. Asarco Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 986 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Staton v. Boeing Co. (2003), San Pedro Hotel Co. v. City of Los Angeles (1998)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · City of Burlington v. Dague · Smith v. Jackson · International Jensen Incorporated v. Metrosound Usa Inc La
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“against the logic and effects of the facts as are found.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a complicated formula from which valuable considerations of several kinds are provided to the class members,” it is no abuse of discretion to use a settlement’s “estimated value”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Espinosa v. Ahearn
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.