Graco, Inc. v. Kremlin, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (1987), Compagnie Francaise d'Assurance Pour le Commerce Exterieur v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1984)
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 1781 · 35 U.S.C. § 271 · 35 U.S.C. § 284 · 35 U.S.C. § 285
Relies on Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Houltin v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]iscovery does not 'take place within [a state's] borders' merely because documents to be produced somewhere else are located there. Similarly, discovery should be considered as taking place here, not in another country, when interrogatories are served here, even if the necessary information is located in the other country.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Involving two judicial systems in a single lawsuit is as likely to disrupt international relations as it is to promote them, especially when the two systems are brought together for discovery purposes. Some of the bitterest disputes center around discovery problems, and the participation of two judges, from different countries, will not necessarily facilitate resolution of discovery disputes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]t is a mistake, the court believes, to view the Convention as an international agreement to protect foreign nationals from American discovery when they are parties properly before American courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.