Kline v. Security Guards, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 227
Relies on Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Califano v. Yamasaki · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether common questions of law and fact predominate, the focus of the inquiry is directed primarily toward the issue of liability. The gravamen of plaintiffs complaint is not a common course of conduct by the defendant, but rather a series of individual transmissions under individual circumstances, each of which is an alleged violation of the statute. Lacking a single set of operative facts, it is difficult to see how common questions... predominate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he numerosity and commonality requirements...evaluate the sufficiency of the class itself....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not possible to have an expectation of non-interception absent an expectation of privacy.”
1 later decision 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.