Robbin v. Fluor Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 213 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Andrews v. Orr (1988), Catholic Social Services, Inc. v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2000)
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker · Chardon v. Fumero Soto
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to extend tolling to class actions `tests the outer limits of the American Pipe doctrine and ... falls beyond its carefully crafted parameters into the range of abusive options.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hatfield v. Halifax PLC & HBOS PLC · Pedro Yang Carol Jackson Peter S. Kelsch, on Behalf of Themselves and All Persons Similarly Situated Jason Thompson Raymond T. Crump v. Steven A. Odom Mark Gergel Hensley E. West Martin D. Kidder Stephen J. Clearman (d.c. Civil No. 02-Cv-05968) James Barberian Joseph Kinosian Karen Kinosian v. Steven A. Odom Mark Gergel Hensley E. West Martin D. Kidder Stephen J. Clearman (d.c. Civil No. 03-Cv-00725) Jason Thompson and Raymond T. Crump“Robbin asserts that the policy considerations underlying the tolling doctrines of American Pipe and Crown, Cork should be extended to include class members who file subsequent class actions. This position has been squarely rejected by several courts ... We agree with the Second Circuit that to extend tolling to class actions “tests the outer limits of the American Pipe doctrine and ... falls beyond its carefully crafted parameters into the range of abusive options.” We therefore affirm the district court’s dismissal of Robbin’s class action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he filing of a class action tolls the statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class, not just as to intervenors.”
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.