621 F. Supp. 613 - Van Gelder v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2010
1 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. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1401 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Ross v. Bernhard · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Norwood v. Kirkpatrick · Smith v. Sperling · Sweet v. United States
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 18 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 or division where it might have been brought.”
1 later decision 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.