Parkinson v. April Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 650 · 1975
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay (1978)
46 federal appellate · 7 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. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Catlin v. United States · Cobbledick v. United States · Brady v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he best solution is to hold that appeals from the grant or denial of class action designation can be taken only under the procedure for interlocutory appeals provided by 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). . . . Since the need for review of class action orders turns on the facts of the particular case, this procedure is preferable to attempts to formulate standards which are necessarily so vague as to give rise to undesirable jurisdictional litigation with concomitant expense and delay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“irreparable harm to the defendant in terms of time and money spent in defending a huge class action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may be altered or amended before the decision on the merits.”
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.