Smith v. Murchison’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably 94452 Penn Central Securities Litigation (1974), duPont v. Wyly (1973)
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1401 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1695
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman · Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought.”
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.