Appleyard v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 955 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Green v. Mansour (1986), Baby Neal v. Casey (1994)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Quern v. Jordan · Milliken v. Bradley
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable; (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class; (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the same essential characteristics as the claims of the class at large.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“It does not appear that the factual differences surrounding the medical conditions of the various plaintiffs would preclude the district court from determining whether the plaintiffs are entitled to the relief they seek. The similarity of the legal theories shared by the plaintiffs and the class at large is so strong as to overide whatever factual differences might exist and dictate a determination that the named plaintiffs’ claims are typical of those of the members of the putative class.”
2 later decisions 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.