Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Weiss v. Regal Collections (2004), Kaiser Group International Inc v. J III (2005)
3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1437D
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Steffel v. Thompson · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Sosna v. Iowa
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mooting of the class representative's claims does not moot the entire action because the class 'acquire[s] a legal status separate from the interest asserted [by its named plaintiff].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we have recognized that '[i]n the class action context, special mootness rules apply' for determining at what point in time a named plaintiff must still have a personal stake in the litigation to continue seeking to represent a putative class action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the issues presented are no longer live, or (2) the parties no longer have a cognizable interest in the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Iezzi
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.