885 F. Supp. 537 - German v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably In re Nasdaq Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation (1996), In re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation (2002)
4 federal appellate · 4 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 12 U.S.C. § 1454 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1437A · 42 U.S.C. § 1437F · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 4822 · 42 U.S.C. § 4851 (Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Conley v. Gibson · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Scheuer v. Rhodes
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Typicality refers to the nature of the claim of the class representatives and not to the specific facts from which the claim arose or relief is sought. The proper inquiry is whether other members of the class have the same or similar injury, whether the action is based on conduct not special or unique to the named plaintiffs, and whether other class members have been injured by the same course of conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]espite the enactment of laws in the early 1970's requiring the Federal Government to eliminate as far as practicable lead-based paint hazards in federally owned, assisted, and insured housing [i.e., the LPPPA], the Federal response to this national crisis remains severely limited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The owner of a multiple dwelling shall remove or cover in a manner approved by the [Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("DHPD")] any paint or other similar surface coating material having a reading of 0.7 milligrams of lead per square centimeter or greater or containing more than 0.5 of metallic lead based on the non-volatile content of the paint or other similar surface-coating material in the interior walls, ceilings, doors, window sills or moldings in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling in which a child or children six (6) years of age and under reside; (2) In any multiple dwelling erected prior to January First, Nineteen Hundred Sixty in which paint or other similar surface-coating material is found to be peeling on the interior walls, ceilings, doors, window sills or moldings in any dwelling unit in which a child or children six (6) years of age or under reside, it shall be presumed that the peeling substance contains more than 0.5 percent of metallic lead based on the nonvolatile content of the paint or other similar surface coating material or have a reading of 0.7 milligrams of lead per square centimeter or greater. (3) The existence of paint or other similar surface-coating material having a reading of 0.7 milligrams of lead per square centimeter or containing more than 0.5 percent of metallic lead based on the non-volatile content of the paint or other similar surface-coating material on the interior walls, ceilings, doors, window sills or m”
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.