Fetta v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2001
3 federal appellate · 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. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1337
Relies on Ratner v. Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. · Goldman v. First National Bank · 404 F. Supp. 1 - Ball v. Connecticut Bank and Trust Company · AAMCO Automatic Transmissions, Inc. v. Tayloe · Mims v. Dixie Finance Corp.
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.
“This argument is no longer a valid basis for denying certification as a class action in view of the 1974 amendment to the Act, Public Law 93-495, Title IV (October 28, 1974), Section 408.”
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.