521 U.S. 591 (1997) Cited 6,995 times 69 Legal Analyses
Holding that courts are "bound to enforce" Rule 23's certification requirements, even where it means decertifying a class after they had reached a settlement agreement and submitted it to the court for approval
472 U.S. 797 (1985) Cited 1,792 times 19 Legal Analyses
Holding that “the Due Process Clause of course requires that the named plaintiff at all times adequately represent the interests of the absent class members”
Upholding settlement despite fact that little formal discovery had been conducted and noting that, "[b]eing an extra judicial process, informality in the discovery of information is desired"
Holding that conduct is actionably “deceptive when it has the capacity to mislead consumers, acting reasonably under the circumstances, to act differently from the way they otherwise would have acted (i.e., to entice a reasonable consumer to purchase the product)”
Holding it was not impracticable to join 49 plaintiffs in one suit and noting that "[j]oinder is considered more practicable when all members of the class are from the same geographic area" and can be easily identified.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 Cited 35,160 times 1237 Legal Analyses
Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"