Leroy v. Great Western United Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
234 federal appellate · 253 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,474 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Daniels v. Williams (1986), City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)
234 federal appellate · 253 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedGreat Western United Corp. v. Kidwell (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78M (§ 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78Q (§ 17 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Butner v. United States · Bishop v. Wood · Hagans v. Lavine · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman
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 1,474 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n most instances, the purpose of statutorily specified venue is to protect the defendant against the risk that a plaintiff will select an unfair or inconvenient place of trial.”
85 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A civil action wherein jurisdiction is not founded solely on diversity of citizenship may be brought only in the judicial district where all defendants reside, or in which the claim arose, except as otherwise provided by law.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The question of personal jurisdiction, which goes to the court's power to exercise control over the parties, is typically decided in advance of venue, which is primarily a matter of choosing a convenient forum. [Citation omitted.] On the other hand, neither personal jurisdiction nor venue is fundamentally preliminary in the sense that subject-matter jurisdiction is, for both are personal privileges of the defendant, rather than absolute strictures on the court, and both may be waived by the parties.”
5 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.