Kenneth Newton’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 72 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. (2006), Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation v. Usa
1 federal appellate · 72 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Basic Inc. v. Levinson
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“One sound basis for granting jurisdiction under Rule 23(f) is... the circumstance that the class certification `places inordinate or hydraulic pressure on defendants to settle, avoiding the risk, however small, of potentially ruinous liability.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alan G. Hevesi, Comptroller of the State of New York, as Administrative Head of the New York State and Local Retirement Systems and as Trustee of the New York State Common · In Re Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Limited, Inc., Sears Roebuck & Company, Safeway Inc., Circuit City Stores, Inc., National Retail Federation and the Food Marketing Institute, International Mass Retail Association, and All Similarly Situated Persons v. Visa U.S.A. Inc. And Mastercard International Incorporated“[B]ecause the determination of a certification request invariably involves some examination of factual and legal issues underlying the plaintiffs' cause of action, a court may consider the substantive elements of the plaintiff's case . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.