Behrens v. Wometco Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting plaintiffs’ counsel is entitled to reimbursement from the class fund for reasonable expenses
• “A settlement can be satisfying even if it amounts to a hundredth or even a thousandth of a single percent of the potential recovery.”
• “The second and third considerations of the Bennett test are easily combined. A court first determines the range of recovery by resolving various damages issues. The court then determines where in this range of possible recovery do fair, adequate, and reasonable settlements lie.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-03-23· cited 303×
• Small v. Fritz Companies, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 2003-04-07· cited 297×
• Brody v. Hellman
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-07-12· cited 170×
• Van Vranken v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  N.D. California· 1995-08-16· cited 141×
• In re Domestic Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation
  N.D. Georgia· 1993-03-22· cited 127×
• Sowell v. Butcher & Singer, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1991-02-21· cited 74×
• Maley v. Del Global Technologies Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2002-01-29· cited 71×
• Wortley v. Camplin
  First Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 53×
• Dehoyos v. Allstate Corp.
  W.D. Texas· 2007-02-21· cited 47×
• In re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation
  S.D. Florida· 2011-11-22· cited 43×
• Association for Disabled Americans, Inc. v. Amoco Oil Co.
  S.D. Florida· 2002-02-19· cited 38×
• Allapattah Services, Inc. v. Exxon Corp.
  S.D. Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 36×
• Lazy Oil, Co. v. Witco Corp.
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-12-31· cited 34×
• Lipuma v. American Express Co.
  S.D. Florida· 2005-12-20· cited 31×
• Goldenberg v. Marriott PLP Corp.
  D. Maryland· 1998-10-22· cited 28×
• In Re Unisys Corp. Retiree Medical Benefits Erisa Litigation
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1995-03-20· cited 27×
• Saccoccio v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  S.D. Florida· 2014-02-28· cited 24×
• In Re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2004-04-21· cited 22×
• In re BankAmerica Corp. Securities Litigation
  E.D. Missouri· 2002-07-08· cited 19×
• Pinto v. Princess Cruise Lines, Ltd.
  S.D. Florida· 2007-02-16· cited 17×

Cites

73 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Bell v. Hood
  Supreme Court· 1946-04-01· cited 4,157×
• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 3,533×
• TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-14· cited 2,447×
• Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 1,751×
• Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,683×
• Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-24· cited 1,450×
• J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-08· cited 1,399×
• City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1974-03-13· cited 1,333×
• City of Riverside v. Rivera
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-27· cited 1,221×
• Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,218×
• New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1983-06-15· cited 1,038×
• Superintendent of Insurance of New York v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court· 1971-11-08· cited 948×
• Blackie v. Barrack
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-09-25· cited 871×
• Cotton v. Hinton
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-09-30· cited 455×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,755, Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,074 William B. Weinberger v. James C. Kendrick, Charles M. Coyne
  Second Circuit· 1983-01-26· cited 443×
• Girsh v. Jepson
  Third Circuit· 1975-07-25· cited 427×
• Hankerson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 371×