Buhl v. Jeffes’s Empirical Analysis

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the absence of definitive authority authorizing this Court to make an independent determination as to the propriety of the transfer, the Court would be hesitant to substitute its judgment on the question of venue for that of the District Court of the Eastern District. However, in Hoffman v. Blaski [citation omitted], involving the transfer of a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404 (a), the Court noted that principles of res judicata do not apply to transfer orders because they are interlocutory, not made upon the merits, and are entered by courts of coordinate jurisdiction, [citation omitted]. In Ferri v. United Aircraft Corp., 357 F.Supp. 814 (D.Conn. 1973), the District Court for the District of Connecticut retransferred a case which it received from the Southern District of Florida on the ground that the original transfer was improper. The Court noted that the Supreme Court’s decision in Blaski ‘holds that a district court to which an action has been improperly transferred should return the case... ’ 357 F.Supp. at 816 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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