Postow v. Oba Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 1370 · 1980
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Fink v. National Savings & Trust Co. (1985), King v. State of California D M (1986)
36 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendants ... assume the risk that a judgment in their favor will not protect them from subsequent suits by other potential class members, for only the slender reed of stare decisis stands between them and the prospective onrush of litigants.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for allowing post-judgment certification in that case: The class was originally certified before summary judgment was granted to the Postows on Count II (though the members of the class were not correctly identified and notified until after then); Oriental moved for summary judgment after the Postows had agreed to stay discovery on the identity of the potential class members only until a decision on Oriental's motion to dismiss; and the notice to potential class members did not inform them as to the existence of any judgment in their favor, thus reducing substantially the”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] defendant may waive the protections Rule 23(c) offers and elect to have the merits decided ... before notice is sent to the class when, as here, the defendant moves for summary judgment before resolution of the certification issue.”
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.