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In Re: Cendant Corp Cendant Capital Lester Goldstein on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
4
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

11 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation (2002), No 06-3098

11 district · 8 state decisions

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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 Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Hagans v. Lavine · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · United States v. Johnson

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he bright light cast upon the judicial process by public observation diminishes possibilities for injustice, incompetence, perjury, and fraud.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[A] document may still be construed as a judicial record, absent filing, if a court interprets or enforces the terms of that document, or requires that it be submitted to the court under seal.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[i]t is well-settled that there exists, in both criminal and civil cases, a common law public right of access to judicial proceedings and records.”
    3 later decisions 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.