In re Vitamins Antitrust Class Actions’s Empirical Analysis
215 F.3d 26 · 2000
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Fund for Animals, Inc. v. Norton (2003), Karsner v. Lothian (2008)
15 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On timely motion, the court must permit anyone to intervene who ... claims an interest relating to the property or transaction that is the subject of the action, and is so situated that disposing of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede the movant’s ability to protect its interest, unless existing parties adequately represent that interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is uncertainty over whether standing is necessary for permissive intervention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides a check against settlement dynamics that may 'lead the negotiating parties even those with the best intentions to give insufficient weight to the interests of at least some class members.”
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.