Relf v. Gasch’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 804 · 1975
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Lamont v. Haig (1978), Light v. Wolf (1987)
24 federal appellate · 22 district ·
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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2676 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Hoffman v. Blaski · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Anderson v. Alabama
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district ... where it might have been brought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This limitation, like the earlier doctrine of forum non conveniens, imposes two prerequisites to transferability. Venue must be proper in the transferee district; in addition, the defendants must be subject to the process of the federal court in the transferee district at the time the action was originally filed, (footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A civil action in which each defendant is an officer of the United States in his official capacity, a person acting under him, or an agency of the United States, may be brought in any judicial district where a plaintiff in the action resides.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Driver v. Helms
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.