Clinton v. Janger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Manetti-Farrow, Inc. v. Gucci America, Inc. (1988), Hugel v. Corporation of Lloyd's (1993)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Coastal Steel Corporation v. Tilghman Wheelabrator Ltd Wheelabrator-Frye Inc · Bense v. Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a range of transaction participants, parties and non-parties, should benefit from and be subject to forum selection clauses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The only decision to be made now is whether any alternative forum is reasonable, not specifically whom can be brought into the forum finally chosen. If there is at least one foreign forum which is reasonable, the dispute should not be prosecuted in this District. The plaintiffs will remain free to reinstitute proceedings in that foreign forum, or anywhere else that they believe is proper. Whether there is jurisdiction over all defendants in the foreign forum selected by the plaintiffs will be a question for that court to decide."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) which law governs the formation and construction of the contract; (2) the residency of the parties involved; (3) the place of execution and/or performance of the contract; *** (4) the location of the parties and witnesses participating in the litigation. [Citation.] *** (5) the inconvenience to the parties of any particular location; and (6) whether the clause was equally bargained for. [Citation.]” Clinton v. Janger (N.D. Ill. 1984), 583 F. Supp. 284, 289 .”
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.