Zahn v. International Paper Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002
8 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Snyder v. Harris · Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · Switzerland Cheese Association Inc v. E Horne's Market Inc · In re Whittington
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“precludes our obtaining jurisdiction over those members of the proposed class who do not meet the $10,000 jurisdictional requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“each class member in a spurious class action must independently satisfy the requirement as to jurisdictional amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.