Prack v. Weissinger’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 446 · 1960
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Rogers v. Stratton Industries, Inc. (1986), Burgess Ex Rel. Burgess v. Gibbs (1964)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. T. Eaton Co. · Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Assignee of Steve Radeff and Carl Robinson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n view of the [Supreme Court's] Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert [, 330 U.S. 501 , 67 S.Ct. 839, 91 L.Ed. 1055 (1947)] decision, we are of the opinion that a removed action to which a Federal District Court applies the doctrine of forum non conveniens need not be remanded, but may be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such determination is consistent with the inherent power of federal courts to refuse jurisdiction of cases not within the purview of the provision of 28 U.S.C.A. Section 1404 (a)—cases which should have been brought in a foreign jurisdiction, rather than in the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In federal practice, judges of coordinate jurisdiction, sitting in cases involving identical legal questions under the same facts and circumstances, should not reconsider the decisions of each other.”
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.