Martin v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
623 F.2d 469 · 1980
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Coffey v. Van Dorn Iron Works (1986), Hoffman v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1988)
49 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides the basis for any transfer made for the purpose of avoiding an obstacle to adjudication on the merits in the district court where the action was originally brought. That defect may be either improper venue or lack of personal jurisdiction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A transfer necessitated by lack of personal jurisdiction is based not upon the inconvenience of the original forum but upon the impropriety of that forum. If the state law of the original forum is applied following a transfer based upon lack of personal jurisdiction, a plaintiff would gain by proceeding first in an improper forum.”
3 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.