Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
454 federal appellate · 153 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,390 later decisions (77 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Brown v. General Services Administration (1976), Varity Corporation v. Howe (1996)
454 federal appellate · 153 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTransmirra Products Corp. v. Fourco Glass Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1392 · 28 U.S.C. § 1400 · 28 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Logan v. United States · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · D. Ginsberg & Sons, Inc. v. Popkin
Cited together with Stonite Products Co. v. Melvin Lloyd Co. · Schnell v. Peter Eckrich & Sons, Inc. · W. S. Tyler Co. v. Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co. · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Pure Oil Company v. Suarez
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 1,390 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However inclusive may be the general language of a statute, it 'will not be held to apply to a matter specifically dealt with in another part of the same enactment.... Specific terms prevail over the general in the same or another statute which otherwise might be controlling.' Ginsberg & Sons v. Popkin, 285 U.S. 204 , 208 (52 S.Ct. 322, 323, 76 L.Ed. 704).”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A corporation may be sued in any judicial district in which it is incorporated or licensed to do business or is doing business, and such judicial district shall be regarded as the residence of such corporation for venue purposes.””
15 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.