Broussard’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
44 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2005), Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation v. Usa
44 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Califano v. Yamasaki · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he final three requirements of Rule 23(a) “tend to merge,” with commonality and typicality “serving] as guideposts for determining whether ... maintenance of a class action is economical and whether the named plaintiffs claim and the class claims are so interrelated that the interests of the class members will be fairly and adequately protected in their absence.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only when one party figuratively holds all the cards—all the financial power or technical information, for example—have North Carolina courts found that the 'special circumstance' of a fiduciary relationship has arisen.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“divorced from any actual proof of damages”
5 later decisions 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.