true class action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 394 U.S. 332 - Snyder v. Harris · 1969Most cited · 2,109 citing opinions
True class actions were those in which the rights of the different class members were common and undivided; in such cases aggregation was permitted.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “true class action” — 2,096 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.