Schmidt v. Avco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Hamilton v. Ohio Savings Bank (1998), Marks v. C.P. Chemical Co. (1987)
3 federal appellate · 128 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 Vinci v. American Can 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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not sufficient that common questions merely exist; rather, the common questions must represent a significant aspect of the case and they must be able to be resolved for all members of the class in a single adjudication.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court finds that the questions of law or fact common to the members of the class predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, . . .”
4 later decisions 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.