Devlin v. Scardelletti’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
311 federal appellate · 57 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 787 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., San Francisco Cty. (2017), United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York (2009)
311 federal appellate · 57 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedScardelletti v. DeBarr (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Allen v. Wright · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Snyder v. Harris · United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald
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 787 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be allowed to appeal the approval of a settlement when they have objected at the fairness hearing.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an absolute characteristic, but rather a conclusion about the applicability of various procedural rules that may differ based on context.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“party for the purposes of appealing the approval of the settlement.”
8 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.