Lesser v. Chevalier’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1979
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. · Auten v. Auten
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.
““Mere inconvenience to a non-citizen is not ground for dismissing a suit brought by a citizen of the United States in a Federal Court and relegating him to the courts of defendant’s country.” At page 331.”
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.