Shutte v. Armco Steel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 22 · 1970
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 142 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 356 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Katz v. Carte Blanche Corp. (1974), George Jumara and Evangelina Jumara, H/w v. State Farm Insurance Company (1995)
26 federal appellate · 142 district · 2 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 Van Dusen v. Barrack · Hoffman v. Blaski · Swindell-Dressler Corp. v. Dumbauld · Owatonna Manufacturing Company v. Melroe Company
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 356 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is “black letter law”, that “ ‘a plaintiff’s choice of a proper forum is a paramount consideration in any determination of a transfer request, and that choice ... should not be lightly disturbed.’ ””
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] transfer is authorized by [§ 1404(a) ] only if the plaintiff had an ‘unqualified right’ to bring the action in the transferee forum at the time of the commencement of the action; i.e., venue must have been proper in the transferee district and the transferee court must have had power to command jurisdiction overall of the defendants.”
7 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.