Edmondson v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably De La Fuente v. Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. (1983), Kornberg v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. (1984)
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Delli Paoli v. United States · Ristaino v. Ross
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 23(a)(2) does not require that all questions of law or fact raised in the litigation be common. There need be only a single issue common to all members of the class. Therefore, when the party opposing the class has engaged in some course of conduct that affects a group of persons and gives rise to a cause of action, one or more of the elements of that cause of action will be common to all of the persons affected. . . . Where an across-the-board or permeating policy of discrimination is alleged in a class action, the requirement under Rule 23(a)(2) is satisfied.”
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.