Zients v. LaMorte’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 628 · 1972
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Hitt v. Nissan Motor Co. (1977), Greenfield v. Villager Industries, Inc. (1973)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until the fund created by the settlement is actually distributed, the court retains its traditional equity powers.”
4 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.