Snyder v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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

1. “Rule 23, as amended, contains nothing to indicate that it has now become something more than a procedural device to permit several plaintiffs to unite in a single suit. The rule in no way purports to affect the jurisdiction of this court, nor do the Notes of the Advisory Committee on Rules indicate that the rule is to have such an effect. There is no reason why the Pinel doctrine should suddenly become obsolete with the passage of the amended Rule 23, unless the new rule somehow changes the character of a plaintiff’s right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berman v. Narragansett Racing Ass'n

2. ““A judgment in a class action brought under Rule 23, as amended, is res judicata as to the whole class except as to those members of a (b) (3) type of class action who specifically request to be left out of the action.” Snyder v. Harris, 268 F.Supp. 701 (U.S.D.C.E.D.Mo.1967), aff’d 390 F.2d 204 (8 Cir.), aff’d 394 U.S. 332 , 89 S.Ct. 1053 , 22 L.Ed.2d 319 , rehearing denied 394 U.S. 1025 , 89 S.Ct. 1622 , 23 L.Ed.2d 50 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Whitmore v. Tarr

3. ““ [A] construal of the amended Rule 23 in such a way as to confer jurisdiction on this court where in a similar situation before the amendment to the rule it would not have had jurisdiction, would constitute a direct violation of Rule 82 * * *." Snyder v. Harris, 268 F.Supp. 701, 704 (E.D.Mo.1967).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pomierski v. W. R. Grace & Co.