No. 98-1942’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2020
1 federal appellate · 9 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 United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Zimmerman v. Bell · Shores v. Sklar
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly relinquished `any and all' claims `of any kind or nature whatsoever he may have individually' [and] `any and all' monetary claims ... he may have as a member/representative of the putative class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potter“[a] plaintiff seeking class certification may assert an interest in his individual substantive claim or in shifting the costs of litigation to the remainder of the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potter
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.