157 F. Supp. 2d 1103 - Williams v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Decker Coal Company v. Commonwealth Edison Company · Provenz v. Miller · Black v. TIC Investment Corp. · No. 99-55633 · Lew v. Moss
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) plaintiffs choice of forum, (2) convenience of the parties, (3) convenience of the witnesses, (4) ease of access to the evidence, (5) familiarity of each forum with the applicable law, (6) feasibility of consolidation of other claims, (7) any local interest in the controversy, and (8) the relative court congestion and time of trial in each forum.”
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.