Berman v. Herrick’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1991
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Wichita Light Co v. Public Untilities Commission of the State of Kansas · Kelly v. United States Steel Corp. · In the Matter of the Indiana Transportation Company · Northeast Clackamas County Electric Co-Operative, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co. · 161 F. Supp. 851 - Lasch v. Antkies
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Intervention in an in personam action under a discretionary right must be supported by independent grounds of jurisdiction; except when the action is a class action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olivieri v. Adams
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.