Buckley v. Control Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 96 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Whalen v. Carter (1992), Lenz v. Associated Inns & Restaurants Co. of America (1993)
10 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain · Carden v. Arkoma Associates · Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones · Chapman v. Barney
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well established that an entity on whose behalf a derivative claim is asserted is a necessary defendant in the derivative action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bankston v. Burch
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.