In Re: Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2023
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 In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation MDL No. 381 · Beecher v. Able · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Helfand · Friedman v. Friedman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court did not abuse its discretion in allocating $800 million to the “Deposited Assets” class. The existence and estimated value of the claimed deposit accounts was established by extensive forensic accounting. In addition, these claims are based on well-established legal principles, have the ability of being proved with concrete documentation, and are readily valuated in terms of time and inflation. By contrast, the claims of the other four classes are based on novel and untested legal theories of liability, would have been very difficult to prove at trial, and will be very difficult to accurately valúate. Any allocation of a settlement of this magnitude and comprising such different types of claims must be based, at least in part, on the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the asserted legal claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court has broad supervisory powers with respect to the administration and allocation of settlement funds, and we `will disturb the scheme adopted by the district court only upon a showing of an abuse of discretion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gizella Weisshaus, on Behalf of Herself and All Other Persons of All National Origins, Ethnic Groups, Races, Creeds and Colors, Similarly Situated as Victims and Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, Jacob Friedman and Samuel J. Dubbin, World Jewish Restitution Organization, South Florida Holocaust Coalition and Thomas Weiss, Intervenor-Plaintiffs, Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Gregory Tsvilichovsky, Matvey Yentus, Sofiya Bloshteyn, Olga Tsvilikhovskya, Larisa Ryabaya, Rosa Yentus, Pavel Aronov, Lubov Starodinskaya, Eliazar Bloshteyn and Plaintiff's Executive Committee Settlement Class, Interested-Parties. Docket No. 04-2511-Cv · 04-2511-Cv
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.