Rustal Trading US, Inc. v. Makki’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2021
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. · Dugger v. Adams · El-Fadl v. Central Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the important private interest considerations are “the relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive.” The court must also consider problems in enforcing a judgment if one is obtained and relative advantages and obstacles to a fair trial, if any.... The Court also identified relevant public interest factors: administrative difficulties of courts with congested dockets; the burden of jury duty on people of a community having no connection with the litigation; desirability of holding a trial near those most affected by it ...; appropriateness of holding a trial in a diversity case in a court which is familiar with governing law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may decline to exercise its jurisdiction, even though the court has jurisdiction and venue, when it appears that the convenience of the parties and the court and the interests of justice indicate that the action should be tried in another forum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court was not required to defer to Rustal's choice of forum in this case, inasmuch as Rustal is . . . a foreign plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duha v. Agrium, Inc.
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.