Yaffe v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
454 F.2d 1362 · 1972
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 40 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Gardner v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. (1978), Katz v. Carte Blanche Corp. (1974)
76 federal appellate · 40 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Palermo v. United States · United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. · Dolgow v. Anderson
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for a court to refuse to certify a class... because of vaguely-perceived management problems ... discount[s] too much the power of the court to deal with a class suit flexibly, in response to difficulties as they arise”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n fact, the conduct complained of is the benchmark for determining whether a subdivision (b)(2) class exists, making it uniquely suited to civil rights actions in which the members of the class are often “incapable of specific enumeration”. Committee’s Notes to Revised Rule 23, 3B Moore’s Federal Practice 1123.01 [10-2] (2d ed.1969).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applying the criteria set out in subdivision (b) of Rule 23 cumulatively rather than alternatively,”
2 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.