In Re: Cendant Corp Cendant Capital Lester Goldstein on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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“[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“[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.