Trujillo v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.3d 1210 · 2006
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 43 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably In re Cline (2008), Kansas Penn Gaming, LLC v. Collins (2011)
24 federal appellate · 43 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1631 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · Farmer v. Brennan
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the burden on the defendant, (2) the forum state’s interest in resolving the dispute, (3) the plaintiffs interest in receiving convenient and effective relief, (4) the interstate judicial system’s interest in obtaining the most efficient resolution of controversies, and (5) the shared interest of the several states in furthering fundamental social policies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although ... [section]1406(a) ... contain[s] the word 'shall,' ... [the Tenth Circuit] ha[s] interpreted the phrase 'if it is in the interest of justice' to grant [a] ... district court discretion in making [the] ...decision to transfer an action or ... to dismiss the action without prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]actors warranting transfer rather than dismissal, at least under [28 U.S.C.] § 1631, include finding that the new action would be time barred, that the claims are likely to have merit, and that the original action was filed in good faith rather than filed after 'plaintiff either realized or should have realized that the forum in which ... she filed was improper[.]'”
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.