Albert Zucker’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably In Re: Cendant Corporation Prides Litigation (2001), Gatorcom Corp v. Ll Bean Inc
2 district · 6 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 94-1064 94-1194 94-1195 94-1198 94-1202 94-1203 94-1207 94-1208 94-1219 · Grunin v. International House of Pancakes · Parker v. Anderson · Dunn v. H. K. Porter 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o Article III case or controversy is needed with regard to attorneys' fees as such, because they are but an ancillary matter”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“gets the same money whether the fee is cut or not,... a client whose attorney accepts payment, without his consent, from the defendants he is suing, may have a remedy, and this remedy may extend to a plaintiff class whose class attorneys accept payment from the defendants the class is suing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because `the reasonableness of attorneys' fees is within the overall supervisory authority' of the court in a class action, the court did not need to reach the question of whether an objector has standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.