Green v. Wolf Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 291 · 1968
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 50 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 608 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin (1974), Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay (1978)
147 federal appellate · 50 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
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 608 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he effective administration of 23(b)(3) [may]... require the use of the sensible device of split trials”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As soon as practicable after the commencement of an action brought as a class action, the court shall determine by order whether it is to be so maintained. An order under this subdivision may be conditional, and may be altered or amended before the decision on the merits.”
7 later decisions 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.