Steinmetz v. Bache & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2002
1 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. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Green v. Wolf Corp. · Wilcox v. Commerce Bank · Free World Foreign Cars, Inc. v. Alfa Romeo, S.p.A.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 23 is “not intended to permit a private litigant to enhance his own bargaining power by a claim that he is acting for a class of litigants,” nor is the purpose of the Rule to reap “a golden harvest of fees” for lawyers who bring class actions.”
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.