145 Cal. App. 3d 27 - Classen v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 18 Cal. App. 4th 644 - Caro v. Procter & Gamble Co. (1993), 191 Cal. App. 3d 1341 - BWI Custom Kitchen v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1987)
24 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · International Salt Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States · 4 Cal. 3d 800 - Vasquez v. Superior Court
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note that it has never been the law in California that the class representative must have identical interests with the class members. The only requirements are that common questions of law and fact predominate and that the class representative be similarly situated. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n most circumstances a court can devise remedial procedures which channel the individual [damage] determinations that need to be made through existing forums.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.