Frazier’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Mattera v. Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (2006), McMorris v. TJX Companies, Inc. (2007)
3 district ·
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 Lapides v. Board of Regents of Univ. System of Ga. · Wisconsin Department of Corrections v. Schacht · Cory v. White · Postal Telegraph Cable Co v. State of Alabama · Allen v. R & H Oil & Gas 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A)(i) over a class action in which— (I) greater than two-thirds of the members of all proposed plaintiff classes in the aggregate are citizens of the State in which the action was originally filed; (II) at least 1 defendant is a defendant— (aa) from whom significant relief is sought by members of the plaintiff class; (bb) whose alleged conduct forms a significant basis for the claims asserted by the proposed plaintiff class; and (cc) who is a citizen of the State in which the action was originally filed; and (III) principal injuries resulting from the alleged conduct or any related conduct of each defendant were incurred in the State in which the action was originally filed; and (ii) during the 3-year period preceding the filing of that class action, no other class action has been filed asserting the same or similar factual allegations against any of the defendants on behalf of the same or other persons ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Paragraphs (2) through (4) shall not apply to any class action in which- (A) the primary defendants are States, State officials, or other governmental entities against whom the district court may be foreclosed from ordering relief; or (B) the number of members of all proposed plaintiff classes in the aggregate is less than 100.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“removal, a state may find itself in a case removed’ to federal court without having joined in the removal.” (footnote omitted)). Plaintiffs, nevertheless, contend that UNC-Chapel Hill “took affirmative and aggressive steps, expending State resources, to ensure this action landed, and remained, in”
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.