Kline v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 400 · 1983
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Kirkpatrick v. J.C. Bradford & Co. (1987), Gary Plastic Packaging Corporation v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc (1990)
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court must be wary of a defendant's efforts to defeat representation of a class on grounds of inadequacy when the effect may be to eliminate any class representation.”); Abelson v. Strong, No. 85-0592, 1987 WL 15872 , at , 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7515 , at (D.Mass. July 30, 1987) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incredibility might support a rebuttal unavailable against many other class members, i.e., that plaintiffs did not significantly rely on the integrity of the market”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a court would be justified in directing the entry, with the defendant's consent, of a judgment which gave a plaintiff all the relief he had requested,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.