Karsten v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 8 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Nguyen v. CNA Corp. (1995), Williams v. Channel Master Satellite Systems, Inc. (1996)
19 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Harris v. Reed · Karsten v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the first reason given is independently sufficient, then all those that follow are surplusage; thus, the strength of the first makes all the rest dicta.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The control of the admission of evidence at trial is an issue firmly within the control of the district court, and we review its determinations only to be certain the court has not abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stray into the practice of advisory opinion-making, solving questions that do not actually require answering in order to resolve the matters before [us].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re KBR, Inc.
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.