Picketts v. International Playtex, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Tessmann v. Tiger Lee Construction Co. (1993), Drumm v. Brown (1998)
2 district · 173 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 · Carnegie v. United States · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Scharffe v. Perkins
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a common law matter, the doctrine of forum non conveniens vests discretion in the trial court to decide where trial will best serve the convenience of the parties and the ends of justice.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[U]nless the balance is strongly in favor of the defendant, the plaintiff's choice of forum should rarely be disturbed.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Just as `jet travel and satellite communications have significantly altered the meaning of non conveniens' . . . so too has the advent of the videotaped deposition greatly transformed the meaning of `compulsory process' in a forum non conveniens calculus. Videotaped depositions frequently make corporeal transportation of foreign witnesses unnecessary,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.