Norman v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 769 · 1970
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2005 · most notably Carson v. American Brands, Inc. (1981), City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation (1974)
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Cobbledick v. United States · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Mercantile National Bank at Dallas v. C H Langdeau Republic National Bank of Dallas
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A class action shall not be dismissed or compromised without the approval of the court ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]isapproval of the settlement is not a step toward final disposition and it is not in any sense an ingredient of the cause of action. In itself, the. . . [lower court's] order is final on the question of whether the proposed settlement should be given judicial approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which finally determines claims of right separate from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated.”
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.