Louis Hoffman v. Allan N. Goberman’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 423 · 1970
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno (1982), Pain v. United Technologies Corp. (1980)
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 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 · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Norwood v. Kirkpatrick · Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. · Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear showing of facts which either (1) establish such oppression and vexation of a defendant as to be out of proportion to the plaintiff's convenience, which may be shown to be slight or nonexistent, or (2) make trial in the chosen forum inappropriate because of considerations affecting the court's own administrative and legal problems.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paper Operations Consultants International, Ltd. v. SS Hong Kong Amber · Nina Cheng, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas T.O. Cheng, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, Shunsaku Harada and Masa Harada, in Their Individual Capacities and as Heirs at Law and Legal Successors of Akiko Harada, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, Lui Su Nai-Chao v. The Boeing Company“Each case turns on its own particular facts, but the ultimate inquiry is whether the retention of jurisdiction ... would fairly serve the convenience of the parties and the ends of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not involve the policy or management of the corporation,”
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.