Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 501 · 1947
Citation profile
1,401 federal appellate · 1,295 district · 2,031 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9,743 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz (1985), Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976)
1,401 federal appellate · 1,295 district · 2,031 state decisions — followed in 46 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGilbert v. Gulf Oil Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co
Cited together with Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Norwood v. Kirkpatrick · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Lauritzen v. Larsen
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 9,743 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
767 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inherent power to dismiss a suit pursuant to the doctrine of Forum non conveniens.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in relation to the extraordinary admiralty and equity powers of the district courts ... for reasons peculiar to the special problems of admiralty and the extraordinary remedies of equity.”
2 later decisions 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.