Northern District of California v. A H Robins Company J’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 28 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. (2008), 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1988)
9 federal appellate · 28 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · La Mar v. H & B Novelty & Loan Co. · Doninger v. Pacific Northwest Bell, Inc. · Mary Green v. Occidental Petroleum Corp. · In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o single happening or accident occurs to cause similar types of physical harm or property damage.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) the interest of members of the class in individually controlling the prosecution or defense of separate actions; (B) the extent and nature of any litigation concerning the controversy already commenced by or against members of the class; (C) the desirability or undesirability of concentrating the litigation of the claims in the particular forum; (D) the difficulties likely to be encountered in the management of a class action.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] 'mass accident' resulting in injuries to numerous persons is ordinarily not appropriate for a class action”
9 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.