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559 U.S. 393 · 2010

Citation profile

357

cited by 357 later decisions

cited 78 times by the Supreme Court

states following

February 2026

most recently cited

64 federal appellate · 33 district · 12 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 12 U.S.C. § 2605 · 12 U.S.C. § 4010 · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 29 U.S.C. § 1854 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))

Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay

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 357 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable; (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class; (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. Teta v. Chow · Erie Insurance Exchange v. Erie Indemnity Co.
“the judicial process for enforcing rights and duties recognized by substantive law and for justly administering remedy and redress for disregard or infraction of them,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Carbone v. Cable News Network, Inc. · Pappas v. Philip Morris, Inc.
“[T]he twin aims of the Erie rule [are] discouragement of forum-shopping and avoidance of inequitable administration of the laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Chieftain Royalty Co. v. Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-A, L.P. · Pappas v. Philip Morris, Inc.

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.