Weit v. Continental Illinois National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 1010 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably General Motors Corporation Engine Interchange Litigation Oswald v. General Motors Corporation (1979), Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation Steering Committee v. Mead Corporation Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation Mead Corporation (1980)
23 federal appellate ·
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 · Michigan v. Ohio · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Radio Station WOW, Inc. v. Johnson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Cohen exception . . . does not reach those orders . . . that do not involve important and unresolved legal questions. . . . The questions (at issue here) will not conclusively settle any issue other than the Propriety of the notice in this particular case under the facts here involved. If review were to be granted on this appeal, we see no reason why almost every order specifying the form and content of notice in a class action would not be appealable. Such a result would not be compatible with the strong federal policy against most interlocutory appeals, and the sound reasons for the final judgment rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that small class which finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were civil rights cases where the acts of the defendants were of such a nature that the wrong done could not be remedied by an injunction in favor of individual plaintiffs only.”
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.