Mayfield v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 1090 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Pigford v. Glickman (1999), Timothy C. Pigford, et al. v. Dan Glickman, Secretary, the United States Department of Agriculture, (2000)
11 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Sosna v. Iowa · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain legal prejudice [sufficient to confer standing upon a non-settling litigant in a class action] has been found to include any interference with a party’s contract rights or a party’s ability to seek contribution or indemnification. A party also suffers plain legal prejudice if the settle ment strips the party of a legal claim or cause of action, such as a cross-claim or the right to present relevant evidence at trial. On the other hand, courts have repeatedly held that a settlement which does not prevent the later assertion of a non-settling party’s claims, although it may force a second lawsuit against the dismissed parties, does not cause plain legal prejudice to the non-settling party. Mere allegations of injury in fact or tactical disadvantage as a result of a settlement simply do not rise to the level of plain legal prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he common feature of the[ ] ... Supreme Court decisions [in Roper and Geraghty ] ... is that the plaintiffs lost their claims involuntarily.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Class members must be given an opportunity to convince the court that the settlement proposed would not be fair, adequate, or reasonable.”
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.