Plummer v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2009
3 federal appellate · 5 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 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Wood v. Strickland · Cox v. C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc. · American Standard, Inc. v. Crane Co. · Burgett v. Cudahy Company
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile these five individuals do not present identical factual assertions, consolidation of their claims into a single representative action would ... provide an efficient procedure for litigating these related claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only basis for such relief advanced by the requesting party is the inadvertence or oversight of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[sought] substantially the same form of relief under the ADEA.”
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.