Dorati v. Dorati’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2008
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Fisher v. United States · De Moss v. United States · Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. T. Eaton Co. · Henry W. Grunewald v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The factors to be considered in assessing a forum non conveniens claim are those ‘practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive' or can make it the opposite; among them are the relative ease of access to proof, availability of compulsory process and the cost of obtaining the attendance of witnesses, the enforceability of a judgment if one is obtained, evidence of an attempt by the plaintiff to vex or harass the defendant by his choice of forum, and other obstacles to a fair trial.... Relevant also are interests of judicial administration, including removal from the forum court’s crowded docket of cases which bear no relationship to the locality, and avoiding unnecessary interpretation of the law of another jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis““(1) Plaintiff is not a resident of the District of Columbia. “(2) Defendant Upjohn is not a resident of the District of Columbia and consents to a suit in the state in which plaintiff resides. “(3) None of the alleged transactions occurred in the District of Columbia. “(4) Witnesses are not uniquely available in the District of Columbia. “(5) Resolution of the causes of action would require this Court to apply foreign law, which could better be determined and applied in the foreign jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[wjhen any District of Columbia court finds that in the interest of substantial justice the action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss such civil action in whole or in part on any conditions that may be just”). 4 .The court treated appellee’s motion as a motion to dismiss on the ground of forum non conveniens, stating that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis
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.