Harris v. Peddle’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 862 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Silber v. Mabon (1994), 76 F. Supp. 2d 1017 - In Re Network Associates, Inc., Securities Litigation (1999)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what notice is reasonably certain to inform the absent members of the plaintiff class,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silber v. Mabon · Silber v. Mabon“brokerage houses, as a matter of business practice, often do not forward ... notices unless they also are reimbursed for the administrative costs of searching their records to find the names and addresses of the beneficial owners and for mailing the notices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silber v. Mabon“[N]o amount of argument that the brokerage houses may or may not have been under some kind of duty to forward the notices can relieve the plaintiff himself of the responsibility of notifying the members of the class, as Eisen IV requires him to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silber v. Mabon
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.