Isby v. Bayh E G E’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 1191 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably General Electric Capital Corporation v. Lease Resolution Corporation (1997), Pigford v. Glickman (1999)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Meachum v. Fano · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] the strength of plaintiffs’ case compared to the amount of defendants’ settlement offer, [2] an assessment of the likely complexity, length and expense of the litigation, [3] an evaluation of the amount of opposition to settlement among affected parties, [4] the opinion of competent counsel, and [5] the stage of the proceedings and amount of discovery completed at the time of settlement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the proposed settlement is lawful, fair, reasonable, and adequate,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon the general principles governing approval of class action settlements”
2 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.