Marcera v. Chinlund’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 253 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2010
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Lee v. Washington · Rhem v. Malcolm · 263 F. Supp. 327 - Washington v. Lee · 371 F. Supp. 594 - Rhem v. Malcolm
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] denial of class action certification should not ordinarily be made without giving the plaintiffs an evidentiary opportunity, if requested.”
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.