Powell v. Tosh’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · General Telephone Co. of the Northwest, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes · Senter v. General Motors Corp. · Sprague v. General Motors Corp.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the definition of the class is an essential prerequisite to maintaining a class action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.