Troy v. Poorvu’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1973
4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on In re Josephson · Foster-Milburn Co. v. Knight · Shapiro v. Bonanza Hotel Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the light of the language of the Josephson case, it must be held that the district to which transfer is requested is one in which the action might have been brought and hence one to which this court has power to make the transfer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilpin v. Wilson““For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.””
1 later decision 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.