H. L. Green Company, Inc. v. The Honorable Lloyd F. MacMahon’s Empirical Analysis
312 F.2d 650 · 1963
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Van Dusen v. Barrack (1964), In re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983 (1987)
14 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hoffman v. Blaski · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · United States v. National City Lines, Inc.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[F]ederal courts comprise a single system applying a single body of law, and no litigant has a right to have the interpretation of one federal court rather than that of another determine his case.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A plaintiff may not resist the transfer of his action to another district court on the ground that the transferee court will or may interpret federal law in a manner less favorable to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.