Morrison v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 642 · 1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2001
7 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Huff v. N. D. Cass Co. of Alabama · Armour v. City of Anniston · Satterwhite v. City of Greenville · McGowan v. Faulkner Concrete Pipe 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require[d] ... to conduct an evidentiary hearing on class certification when there is any doubt about the issue, even when counsel fails to move for such a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.