Blue v. Mathena’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2019
2 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 11 U.S.C. § 107 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd. · Burr
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the plaintiff has the right to select which of the [forums] having concurrent jurisdiction he will bring his action in, and this choice is ordinarily binding on the defendant. However, the plaintiff is also bound by his selection and cannot thereafter bring an action concerning the same subject-matter in a tribunal having concurrent jurisdiction unless a question is involved that cannot be adjudicated by the first [forum].”
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.