Class’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Hanlon v. Chrysler Corp. (1998), In Re: The Prudential Insurance Company Of America Sales Practices Litigation (1998)
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
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 Edelman v. Jordan · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strength of plaintiffs case; the risk, expense[,] complexity, and likely duration of further litigation; the risk of maintaining class action status throughout the trial; the amount offered in settlement; the extent of discovery completed, and the stage of the proceedings; the experience and views of counsel; the presence of a governmental participant; and the reaction of the class members to the proposed settlement.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only upon a strong showing that the district court's decision was a clear abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamentally fair, adequate, and reasonable.”
4 later decisions 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.