Alexander v. Gino's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 71 · 1980
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Eisenberg v. Gagnon (1985), Hassine v. Jeffes (1988)
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · Delli Paoli v. United States · Ristaino v. Ross
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]efore the across the board approach can apply, there still must be some class that satisfies all four requirements of rule 23(a). The crux of that approach is that once a class is properly certified, some of the requirements of rule 23(a) may be relaxed to consider claims that might not satisfy all four elements of rule 23(a). The broadening may not obscure, however, the need to have some class that satisfies the mandatory requirements of rule 23(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we can perceive no reasoned distinction between the personal stake of a person whose claim is mooted and one whose claim is without substantive merit.”
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.