Application for an Order Permitting Metallgesellschaft Ag to Take Discovery Metallgesellschaft Ag v. Hodapp’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 77 · 1997
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Schmitz v. Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP (2004), Bayer AG v. Betachem, Inc. (1999)
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Request for Assistance from Ministry of Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Azar · Malev Hungarian Airlines v. United Technologies International Inc. · Euromepa v. Esmerian, Inc. · Application of Gianoli Aldunate Foden v. Gianoli Aldunate · Esses v. Hanania
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in light of the twin aims of the statute: providing efficient means of assistance to participants in international litigation in our federal courts and encouraging foreign countries by example to provide similar means of assistance to our courts.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal, including criminal investigations conducted before formal accusation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he permissive language of section 1782 vests district courts with discretion to grant, limit, or deny discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.