Wolf v. General Motors-United Auto Workers Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan Board of Administration’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 1266 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1996
5 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e are asked to determine that the efforts of appellants’ counsel resulted in a ‘common benefit’ to a discernible class. Because the facts of this case fall far outside the narrowly circumscribed common benefit exception to the general ‘American Rule’ that attorney’s fees are ordinarily not recoverable by a prevailing litigant in the absence of statutory authorization, (citing Alyeska, supra), we affirm.” (at page 1267) “The common benefit exception anticipates, and is necessarily preceded by, a proven causal relationship between the efforts of counsel and benefits allegedly derived therefrom.” (at page 1268)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t would be a logical fallacy to conclude that the resulting payments were caused by an independent suit in federal court.” (at page 1268)”
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.