Davis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 535 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Berger v. Heckler (1985), 896 F. Supp. 1385 - German by German v. Federal Home Loan Mortg. Corp. (1995)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. Tucker · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles · Quern v. Mandley
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs sought class action status under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(2) and 23(c) for the class composed of “all New York State residents who were, are or will be denied full assistance to prevent a loss of utility service and/or who have had, or having or will have their grants reduced, terminated, suspended or denied. . . . ” [Plaintiffs] sought only the prospective benefits which would inure as the result of such declaratory and injunctive relief that might be granted. We have held that one seeking class action status under Rule 23(b)(2) and 23(c) not only must meet the minimum prerequisites for a class action under Rule 23(a) but also must present additional reasons for obtaining certification of the class under 23(b) and 23(c). Where retroactive monetary relief is not at issue and the prospective benefits of declaratory and injunctive relief will benefit all members of a proposed class to such an extent that the certification of a class would not further the implementation of the judgment, a district court may decline certification. (citations omitted).”
4 later decisions 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.