674 F. Supp. 975 - Felson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2003
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini North River Associates · 19 Cal. App. 3d 769 - Donald v. Garry
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The differences between standing and capacity can easily be illustrated. An infant alleging personal injury would lack capacity but would satisfy the standing requirement. A competent adult failing to allege an interest in a claim would lack standing, but have capacity to sue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires at a minimum that there be an 'actual injury redressable by the court.’”
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.