28 Fair Emplpraccas 1491 28 Empl Prac Dec P 32679’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Williams v. Vukovich (1983), O'Bryan v. Wj Estelle (1983)
4 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] court has an affirmative duty to protect the integrity of its [consent] decree. This duty arises where the performance of one party threatens to frustrate the purpose of the decree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the complexity, expense and likely duration of the litigation, (2) the reaction of the class to the settlement, (3) the stage of the proceedings and the amount of discovery completed, (4) the risks of establishing liability, (5) the risks of establishing damages, (6) the risks of maintaining the class action through the trial, (7) the ability of the defendants to withstand a greater judgment, (8) the range of reasonableness of the settlement fund in light of the best possible recovery, (9) the range of reasonableness of the settlement fund to a possible recovery in light of all the attendant risks of litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has a heavy burden of demonstrating that the decree is unreasonable.”
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.