Fidel v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.3d 508 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Gooch v. Life Investors Insurance Co. of America (2012), National Ass'n of Chain Drug Stores v. New England Carpenters Health Benefits Fund (2009)
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Devlin v. Scardelletti · Marino v. Ortiz · Torrisi v. Tucson Electric Power 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or any class certified under Rule 23(b)(3), the court must direct to class members the best notice that is practicable under the circumstances, including individual notice to all members who can be identified through reasonable effort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reality of class action litigation-wherein each class member is generally entitled to only a small damages claim-necessitates the application of Devlin to Rule 23(b)(3) class actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the class as a whole had notice adequate to flush out whatever objections might reasonably be raised.”
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.