No. 78-1535’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2022
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Montana v. United States · Hanna v. Plumer · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Cromwell v. County of Sac
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that the constitutional requirements of due process and full faith and credit mandate that absent class members are not bound by a judgment in a class action unless the class representative provided adequate and fair representation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Though Nathan was not a party to the Singer action, nonparty shareholders are bound by judgments [in derivative actions] if their interests were adequately represented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n shareholder derivative actions arising under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23.1, parties and their privies include the corporation and all nonparty shareholders.”
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.