Knepper v. Rite Aid Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.3d 249 · 2012
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 218 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Hanna v. Plumer · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent from the debates [over the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947] was any mention of opt-out class actions an unsurprising fact, since the FLSA had not been interpreted to permit such suits. The FLSA did not become relevant to opt-out class actions until after the revision of Rule 23 and the creation of modern Rule 23(b)(3) in 1966.... The effect of [the 1966 creation of modern Rule 23(b)(3)] was to convert what had been an affirmative grant beyond the limited provisions of pre-revision Rule 23 into “a limitation upon the affirmative permission for representative actions that already exists in Rule 23....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In 1947, Congress amended this provision to require that a plaintiff in a FLSA suit 'give his consent in writing to become such a party and such consent is filed in the court in which such action is brought.'”
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.