Lapides v. Doner’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2018
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1401 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
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.
“If the restraint sought undertakes to exercise control or management of the internal affairs of defendant, a foreign corporation, the courts of this State will not assume jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prior state court dismissal on the ground of forum non conveniens can never serve to divest a federal district judge of the discretionary power (to transfer a case under § 1404(a)).”
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.