Rock Island Motor Transit Co. v. Conditioned Air Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• the number of potential plaintiffs is relevant, but not the only factor pertinent to “numerosity”
• the test is not impossibility, but whether joinder will impose a strong litigational hardship or inconvenience on the plaintiff
• “This court has not established any rigid rules regarding the necessary size of classes.”
• “geographical dispersion” is relevant and may offset relatively low numbers of potential plaintiffs
• considering whether various circumstances might discourage individual action
• considering the inconvenience of trying individual suits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).