In Re Sumitomo Copper Litigation Class’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation v. Usa, Hevesi
5 district · 2 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 Green v. Wolf Corp. · Robidoux v. Celani · Caridad v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad · Waste Management Holdings, Inc. v. Mowbray · Prado-Steiman Prado Mc v. Bush
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the certification order will effectively terminate the litigation and there has been a substantial showing that the district court's decision is questionable, or (2) that the certification order implicates a legal question about which there is a compelling need for immediate resolution.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.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“our longstanding view that the district court is often in the best position to assess the propriety of the class and has the ability, pursuant to Rule 23(c)(4)(B), to alter or modify the class, create subclasses, and decertify the class whenever warranted”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]ermission [to appeal under Rule 23(f)] is most likely to be granted when the certification decision turns on a novel or unsettled question of law”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.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
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.