Felzen v. Andreas’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 873 · 1998
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Beverly Blair and Letressa Wilbon, on Behalf of Themselves and a Class of Others Similarly Situated v. Equifax Check Services, Inc. (1999), Petrovic v. Amoco Oil Co. (1999)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Court of Appeals suggested that there may be exceptions to this general rule, primarily when the nonparty has an interest that is affected by the trial court's judgment. We think the better practice is for such a nonparty to seek intervention for purposes of appeal ; denials of such motions are, of course, appealable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robert Scardelletti“formally overrul[ing] Asgrow Seed and any other case in this circuit . . . that permits non-parties to appeal from a decision of any kind in a class action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only parties to a lawsuit, or those that properly become parties, may appeal an adverse judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robert Scardelletti
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.