545 F. Supp. 2d 96 - Breakman v. AOL LLC’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
24 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Snyder v. Harris · Carden v. Arkoma Associates · Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s the Seventh and Tenth Circuits have determined, when a court looks to the compliance costs of a defendant to determine the amount in controversy in an action where separate and dist[in]ct claims are presented on behalf of multiple parties, "the cost running to each plaintiff must meet the amount in controversy requirement,"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in cases in which a single plaintiff seeks to aggregate two or more of his own claims against a single defendant and [ ] in cases in which two or more plaintiffs unite to enforce a single title or right in which they have a common and undivided interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not entirely comfortable with the premise that an action should be retained in federal court where satisfaction of the amount in controversy requirement depends upon a lump sum award of attorneys' fees,”
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.