949 F. Supp. 280 - Klein v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2012
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Hishon v. King & Spalding · Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · Jordan · Massarsky 82-5176 v. General Motors Corporation 82-5177
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1-503 Joint and several liability; contribution; corporation’s right of indemnification (a) Every affiliate of a person liable under section 501 or 502 ... every partner, principal executive officer or director of such person, every person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, every employe [sic] of such person who materially aids in the act or transaction constituting the violation, and every broker-dealer or agent who materially aids in the act or transaction constituting the violation, are also liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such person, unless the person liable hereunder proves that he did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of the existence of the facts by reason of which the liability is alleged to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The CPL was designed to protect consumers from a number of unfair trade practices listed in the statute. This protection is aimed at commercial transactions between consumers and sellers, or those in the chain of supply who affirmatively mislead purchasers whose reliance was reasonable and specifically foreseeable. ... The Consumer Protection Law was designed to equalize the market position and strength of the consumer vis-a-vis the seller.”
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.