Meyer v. Macmillan Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2005
1 federal appellate ·
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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Communications Workers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Vulcan Society of Westchester County v. Fire Department of White Plains
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce plaintiffs have demonstrated ... a reasonable basis for crediting the assertion that aggrieved individuals do exist in the broader class they propose, then it is inappropriate for this Court to attempt to resolve material factual disputes on a motion for class certification.”
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.