Maldonado v. Ochsner’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Castano v. American Tobacco Co. · Allison v. Citgo Petroleum 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole.”
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.