Rundle v. Madigan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Monroe v. Pape · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Barbara Ann Hatridge v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Gene Rodney Hatridge, Barbara Ann Hatridge and Herman L. Reid v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company · Jacobson v. Atlantic City Hospital
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to resolve difficult questions of (state) law upon which state court decisions are not legion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“has been permitted, the courts have often been confronted with claims by members of a single family arising out of a single accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aldinger v. Howard“The litigation of these intimately related claims in a single forum makes good practical sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aldinger v. Howard
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.