Guthrie v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 626 · 1987
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Devlin v. Scardelletti (2002), Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Bolger (1993)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Cotton v. Hinton · Rush PETTWAY Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN CAST IRON PIPE COMPANY, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellee · Gonzales v. Cassidy
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f each class member could appeal individually, the litigation could become unwieldy”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, such individuals cannot represent the class absent the procedures provided for in Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Second, class members who disagree with the course of a class action have available adequate procedures through which their individual interests can be protected. Third, class actions could be unmanageable and nonproductive if each member could individually decide to appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“would defeat the very purpose of class action lawsuits”
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.