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899 F.2d 1281 · 1990

Citation profile

156
cited by 156 later decisions
10
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

24 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Malone (1998), In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation (1992)

24 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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 Pelaes v. United States · Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation · Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. · Lawrence v. United States · Mann v. Koob

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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]hether the specific risks of prejudice and possible confusion [are] overborne by the risk of inconsistent adjudications of common factual and legal issues, the burden on parties, witnesses, and available judicial resources posed by multiple lawsuits, the length of time required to conclude multiple suits as against a single one, and the relative expense to all concerned of the single-trial, multiple-trial alternatives.”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Malcolm v. National Gypsum Co. · Robert M. Johnson, Trustee of the Robert M. Johnson Revocable Living Trust, and Kathryn M. Zimmer v. Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Authority, Acting by and Through Its Operating Contractor, the City of Des Moines
  2. “[c]onsiderations of convenience and economy must yield to a paramount concern for a fair and impartial trial.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Malcolm v. National Gypsum Co. · Cullinan v. Cemtrex, Inc.
  3. “'(1) common worksite; (2) similar occupation; (3) similar time of exposure; (4) type of disease ...; (6) status of discovery in each case; (7) whether all plaintiffs were represented by the same counsel....'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Malcolm v. Keene Corporation · 772 F. Supp. 1380 - In Re Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation

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.