Concordia College Corp. v. W.R. Grace & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 326 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Pacific Insurance Company v. American National Fire Insurance Company, Rail Link, Incorporated (1998), National Bank of Commerce v. Dow Chemical Co. (1999)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Salve Regina College v. Russell · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[This Rule is] not designed to furnish a vehicle by which a disappointed party may reargue matters already argued and disposed of, nor [is it] aimed at providing a mechanism by which new arguments or legal theories, which could and should have been raised prior to the issuance of judgment, can be later advanced.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... nor should a motion for reconsideration serve as the occasion to tender new legal theories for the first time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is some question whether a putative class member can enjoy the benefits of tolling merely by opting out, even though the class action is still pending. The Supreme Court, in dicta has intimated as much, even though that is not the language of American Pipe or Crown, Cork & Seal.”
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.