Smith’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2024
3 district ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker · Pinter v. Dahl
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence before this court indicates the class was intended to be Minnesota residents only. Although the complaints filed in the Minnesota class actions were broad in their descriptions of the class, when the plaintiffs moved for class certification a month later, the narrowness of the class definitions was clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider evidence outside of the complaint that demonstrates the extent of the class the plaintiff represented to the district court that he desired to have certified especially when the complaint itself is unclear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is more narrow than is arguably dictated by [the class] complaint, [the] asserted class for tolling purposes may be limited to that more narrow definition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.