Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation Steering Committee v. Mead Corporation Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation Steering Committee’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 86 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Adams Extract Co. v. Pleasure Hours, Inc. (1981), Armstrong v. McAlpin (1980)
22 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Bauman v. United States District Court · Radio Station WOW, Inc. v. Johnson · Hitt v. Nissan Motor Co. · Weight Watchers of Philadelphia, Inc. v. Weight Watchers International, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... defendants contend they will be prejudiced by a swelling in the ranks of class plaintiffs and, accordingly, trial strategy and the settlement value of the case will be distorted. Every trial court decision affects trial court strategy. Defendants have failed to articulate an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) efore the litigation is completed, the case will undoubtedly present numerous opportunities for parties dissatisfied with some aspect of a court ruling to claim entitlement to appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the hazard that piecemeal appeals will burden the efficacious administration of justice and unnecessarily protract litigation . . ..”
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.