Chardon v. Fumero Soto’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
229 federal appellate · 117 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 604 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Wilson v. Garcia (1985), Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
229 federal appellate · 117 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFernandez v. Chardon (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15B (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 16 (§ 5 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 1691E · 15 U.S.C. § 714B · 19 U.S.C. § 1621 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 28 U.S.C. § 1498 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 29 U.S.C. § 255
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Bishop v. Wood · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Delaware State College v. Ricks · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah
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 604 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal interest in assuring the efficiency and economy of the class action procedure ... is vindicated as long as each unnamed plaintiff is given as much time to intervene or file a separate action as he would have under a state savings statute applicable to a party whose action has been dismissed for reasons unrelated to the merits, or, in the absence of a statute, the time provided under the most closely analogous state tolling statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In virtually all statutes of limitations the chronological length of the limitation period is interrelated with provisions regarding tolling, revival, and questions of application.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Few areas of the law stand in greater need of firmly defined, easily applied rules than does the subject of periods of limitations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.