Denny v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Sosna v. Iowa · Ristaino v. Ross · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Mersay v. First Republic Corp. of America
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adequate representation depends on two factors: (a) the plaintiff's attorney must be qualified, experienced, and generally able to conduct the proposed litigation, and (b) the plaintiff must not have interests antagonistic to those of the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Curtis“plaintiff Lewis' past experience suggests that he and his counsel will be able to provide vigorous advocacy for the members of the class which he now seeks to represent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Curtis
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.