Cunningham Charter Corp. v. Learjet, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.3d 805 · 2010
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1453 (§ 5 of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Church of Scientology of California v. United States · Rockwell International Corp. v. United States · Vega v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. · In the Matter of Shell Oil Company
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defines class action as a suit filed under a statute or rule authorizing class actions, even though many such suits cannot be maintained as class actions because the judge refuses to certify a class”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall apply to any class action before or after the entry of a class certification order by the court with respect to that action,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are, it is true, exceptions to the principle that once jurisdiction, always jurisdiction, notably where a case becomes moot in the course of the litigation. Or, if the plaintiff amends away jurisdiction in a subsequent pleading, the case must be dismissed. And likewise if after the case is filed it is discovered that there was no jurisdiction at the outset-not that this is really an exception to the principle that jurisdiction, once it attaches, sticks; it is a case in which there never was federal jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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