Lazy Oil Co’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.3d 581 · 1999
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Ehleiter v. Grapetree Shores, Inc. (2007), Khan v. Attorney General of United States (2012)
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Behrens v. Pelletier · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Firstier Mortgage Co. v. Investors Mortgage Insurance
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In many class actions, one or more class representatives will object to a settlement and become adverse parties to the remaining class representatives (and the rest of the class). If, by applying the usual rules on attorney-client relations, class counsel could easily be disqualified in these cases, not only would the objectors enjoy great “leverage,” but many fair and reasonable settlements would be undermined by the need to find substitute counsel after months or even years of fruitful settlement negotiations. “Moreover, the conflict rules do not appear to be drafted with class action procedures in mind and may be at odds with the policies underlying the class action rules.” Bruce A. Green, Conflicts of Interest in Litigation: The Judicial Role, 65 Fordham L.Rev. 71, 127 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n the class action context, once some class representatives object to a settlement negotiated on their behalf, class counsel may continue to represent the remaining class representatives and the class, as long as the interest of the class in continued representation by experienced counsel is not outweighed by the actual prejudice to the objectors of being opposed by their former counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“FirsTier simply limited the reach of Rule 4(a)(2)'s proviso. It did not hold that the Rule 4(a)(2) situation—announcement of a final decision followed by notice of appeal and then entry of the judgment — is the only situation in which a premature notice of appeal will ripen at a later date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bryson v. M
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.