Leyva v. Buley’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2011
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1854 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Blackie v. Barrack · Elliott v. Weinberger · Arkansas Education Ass'n v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District · Kinney Shoe Corporation, a New York Corporation v. Bob W. Vorhes and John A. Wagner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With their lack of English, their presumably limited understanding of the legal system, the fact that few live permanently within the Eastern District of Washington, and their generally indigent status, it is highly unlikely that the individual plaintiffs would pursue this litigation if class certification were not allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Carlson
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.