Van Dusen v. Barrack’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
767 federal appellate · 1,355 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,932 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno (1982), Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. (1988)
767 federal appellate · 1,355 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedBarrack v. Van Dusen (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
Cited together with Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno
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 4,932 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For 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.”
116 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“individualized, case-by-case consideration of convenience and fairness.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the transferee district court must be obligated to apply the state law that would have been applied if there had been no change of venue.”
32 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.