Johnson v. G.D. Searle & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably American Motorists Insurance v. ARTRA Group, Inc. (1995), 227 W. Va. 666 - MacE v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2011)
38 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. § 1404
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Administrative difficulties follow for courts when litigation is piled up in congested centers instead of being handled at its origin. Jury duty is a burden that ought not to be imposed upon the people of a community which has no relation to the litigation. In cases which touch the affairs of many persons, there is reason for holding the trial in their view and reach rather than in remote parts of the country where they can learn of it by report only. There is a local interest in having localized controversies decided at home. There is an appropriateness, too, in having the trial of a diversity case in a forum that is at home with the state law that must govern the case, rather than having a court in some other forum untangle problems in conflict of laws, and in law foreign to itself.” Gulf Oil Corp., 330 U.S. at 508-09 , 67 S.Ct. 839 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ § 6-104. Stay or dismissal of action which should be heard in another forum; consolidation of actions in District Court and circuit court. “(a) In general. — If a court finds that in the interest of substantial justice an action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss the action in whole or in part on any conditions it considers just.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive.”
1 later decision 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.