Collins v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 168 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Officers for Justice v. Civil Service Commission (1982), United States v. Foster (1983)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Michel v. United States · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two steps in reaching a settlement in a class action: (1) the parties by themselves reach an agreement of settlement, and (2) the court evaluates the proposed settlement. The reason for judicial approval is not to give the negotiating parties more time or even to ensure that the settlement is fair as between the negotiating parties, but rather to ensure that other unrepresented parties and the public interest are treated fairly by the settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ssues not presented to the trial court should not be considered on appeal unless injustice might otherwise result or where the issue involves only questions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]eterminations of contract matters regarding offer, rejection, and revocation utilizing the objective standard are factual”
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.