Elster v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 196 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Crawford v. Western Electric Co. (1980), Salazar-Calderon v. Presidio Valley Farmers Ass'n (1985)
10 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Foman v. Davis · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Satterwhite v. City of Greenville · Arrowhead Co. v. Lykes
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court has a continuing power under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(c)(1). Its certification decision 'is not irreversible and may be altered or amended at a later date.' 7A C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1785 at 137 (1972).”
2 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.