Wong v. PartyGaming Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the clause was obtained by fraud, duress, abuse of economic power, or unconscionable means; (2) whether the designated forum would be closed to suit or would not effectively handle the suit, or (3) whether the designated forum would be so seriously inconvenient that to require the plaintiff to bring suit there would effectively deprive [her] of [her] day in court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 683 F. Supp. 2d 626 - Jenkins v. Marvel · 822 F. Supp. 2d 726 - Villanueva v. Barcroft

2. “Simplicity argues for determining the validity and meaning of a forum selection clause, in a case in which interests other than those of the parties will not be significantly affected by the choice of which law is to control, by reference to the law of the jurisdiction whose law governs the rest of the contract in which the clause appears, rather than making the court apply two different bodies of law in the same case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. Payday Financial, LLC

3. “A forum selection clause should be upheld absent a strong showing that it should be set aside.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Uboh v. U.S. Equestrian Found.