12 F. Supp. 2d 964 - Peterson v. BASF Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The paradigm cases of ‘common and undivided interest’ ... are those which involve a single indivisible res, such as an estate, a piece of property (the classic example), or an insurance policy. These are matters that cannot be adjudicated without implicating the rights of everyone involved with the res. This is not true of punitive damages. Individual plaintiffs can sue separately for punitive damages, and, whether they prevail on the merits or not, whether they are awarded punitive damages or not, the rights of subsequent plaintiffs remain unaffected.”
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.