adequate representation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 311 U.S. 32 - Hansberry v. Lee · 1940Most cited · 3,295 citing opinions
class suit
members of a class not present as parties to the litigation may be bound by the judgment where they are in fact adequately represented by parties who are present, or where they actually participate in the conduct of the litigation in which members of the class are present as parties... or where the interest of the members of the class, some of whom are present as parties, is joint, or where for any other reason the relationship between the parties present and those who are absent is such as legally to entitle the former to stand in judgment for the latter
How often courts cite the case defining “adequate representation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “adequate representation” — 3,265 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.