See Philadelphia Elec. Co. v. Anaconda Am. The proposed classes exceed this number. The first class includes at least sixty-four members, and could comprise several hundred. The second class likely exceeds one hundred members.
Geographical diversity favors class certification.
Here, the class members are found in the five counties of Eastern Pennsylvania in which the Department of Public Welfare has instituted the HealthChoices program. If the class members cannot easily be identified, certification is appropriate. It is possible but difficult to identify and join each participant in the program whose services have been terminated, reduced, or denied. Plaintiffs have met the requirement of numerosity under Fed. Although Rule 23 establishes these two prerequisites as separate and distinct, the analyses overlap, and therefore these concepts are often discussed together.