Jacobs v. Osmose, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 2301 (Magnuson-Moss Warranty—Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 136 (Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Castano v. American Tobacco Co. · In re American Medical Systems, Inc. · Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation v. Usa · Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Class action treatment is not the superi- or method for handling this matter. A mass tort such as this cannot properly be certified without a prior track record from which this Court would be able to draw the information necessary to make the predominance analysis required under Rule 23. Certification of an “immature” tort results in a higher than normal risk that the class action may not be superior to individual adjudication. Any savings in judicial resources in this case is speculative....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Klay v. Humana, Inc.
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.