Edward Bethell v. Veronica M. Peace’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 495 · 1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Laker Airways Limited v. Sabena Belgian World Airlines Klm Laker Airways Limited (1984), Seattle Totems Hockey Club, Inc. v. National Hockey League (1981)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · 128 So. 2d 427 - Kyle v. Kyle · Movielab, Inc. v. Davis · Groff GMC Trucks, Inc. v. Driggers
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court was within its discretion in relieving the plaintiff of expense and vexation of having to litigate in a foreign court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an American court will be willing to enjoin foreign proceedings which involve the same parties and the same cause of action: (1) where the foreign suit was brought by a resident of the forum state against another resident of the state to evade a protection provided for the latter under forum law * * * or where the foreign suit would be vexatious in other respects * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he party relying on foreign law must plead and prove it. [Plaintiff] ... made no allegations in her pleadings, nor any showing at any point in the litigation, as to what is the relevant [foreign] law. In the absence of any such showing, the district court was entitled to assume that [foreign law] was the same as Florida law.”
1 later decision 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.