In Re Catfish Antitrust Litigation

How courts have described this case

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

• approving incentive awards from a common fund because of the sacrifices of the named plaintiffs in pursuit of litigation on behalf of the class
• “approving incentive awards of $10,000 to each of the four named plaintiffs”
• where the district court awarded fees in a common fund case by percentage of fund and determined reasonableness by the use of the Johnson factors
• $27 million settlement for “damage calculations in the range of several hundreds of millions of dollars”
• use of 25% as “benchmark percentage”; noting awards commonly fall between 20% and 30%
• not unusual to make incentive awards to class representatives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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• Shaw v. Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
  E.D. Texas· 2000-01-28· cited 61×
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  E.D. Louisiana· 2012-12-21· cited 50×
• Dehoyos v. Allstate Corp.
  W.D. Texas· 2007-02-21· cited 47×
• Lachance v. Harrington
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-04-10· cited 45×
• In Re Xcel Energy, Inc., Securities, Derivative & \ERISA\ Litigation
  D. Minnesota· 2005-04-08· cited 42×
• Turner v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2007-02-28· cited 33×
• In Re Combustion, Inc.
  W.D. Louisiana· 1997-06-04· cited 31×
• In re Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
  S.D. Ohio· 1997-07-24· cited 27×
• In re Lease Oil Antitrust Litigation
  S.D. Texas· 1999-05-10· cited 26×
• In Re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation
  E.D. Louisiana· 2010-10-19· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Byrd v. Chadwick
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1997-11-13· cited 17×
• In re Ready-Mixed Concrete Antitrust Litigation
  S.D. Indiana· 2009-09-09· cited 15×
• Batchelder v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
  N.D. Mississippi· 2003-02-21· cited 11×
• Feinberg v. Hibernia Corp.
  E.D. Louisiana· 1997-05-14· cited 8×
• Smith v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, Inc.
  S.D. Mississippi· 2003-03-27· cited 7×
• Jenkins v. Trustmark National Bank
  S.D. Mississippi· 2014-03-25· cited 6×
• In Re Marion Merrell Dow Inc., SEC. Lit.
  W.D. Missouri· 1997-05-15· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Sprague v. Ticonic National Bank
  Supreme Court· 1939-04-24· cited 1,255×
• Trustees v. Greenough
  Supreme Court· 1882-05-18· cited 1,026×
• Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-19· cited 897×
• In Re General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation. Jack French, Robert M. West, Charles E. Merritt, Gary Blades, Dawn and Tracey Best, Gary and Jackie Barnes, Betty Marteny, John and Mary Southands, Edmund Berning, Dale W. Plummer, Edmund and Anneta Casey, John a
  Third Circuit· 1995-04-17· cited 850×
• Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-04-10· cited 514×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-04-03· cited 257×
• Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1988-10-03· cited 198×
• Paul, Johnson, Alston & Hunt v. Graulty
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-09-27· cited 195×
• Oliver S. Brown v. Phillips Petroleum Company, Etc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Ashland Oil, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-03-02· cited 178×
• Copper Liquor, Inc., Robert Earl Basham, Jr., or the Estate of Harold Letcher, Deceased, Cross-Appellant v. Adolph Coors Company, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-08-23· cited 168×
• In Re Thirteen Appeals Arising Out of the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation
  First Circuit· 1995-06-30· cited 146×
• William REED, Jr., Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and United Auto Workers, Local Union 276, Defendants-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-04-18· cited 144×
• Parker v. Anderson
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-02-18· cited 130×
• Longden v. Sunderman
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-12-20· cited 101×
• Uselton v. Commercial Lovelace Motor Freight, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-10-28· cited 99×
• Harman v. Lyphomed, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-10-09· cited 91×
• In Re Catfish Antitrust Litigation
  N.D. Mississippi· 1993-06-28· cited 89×