Diatronics, Inc. v. Elbit Computers, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2011
5 federal appellate · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. v. M/V Nordic Regent
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]arties who choose to engage in international transactions, as plaintiffs did here, `cannot expect always to bring their foreign opponents into a United States forum.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beck Ray Cairns William E. Haynes Robert L. Knauss Derrick Rolfe Herman Turkstra Salomon Brothers, Inc. Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated Bt Alex. Brown Incorporated Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated Cibc Oppenheimer Corp. Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation Lehman Brothers Inc. Schroder & Co., Inc. Smith Barney Inc. Furman Selz LLC Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc. Blackford Securities Corp. First Albany Corporation McDonald & Company Securities, Inc. Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. Wm Smith Securities, Incorporated Deloitte & Touche, Chartered Accountants · DiRienzo v. Philip Services Corp.“Although the plaintiff may be forced to seek less damages [to lower the filing fee], `the prospect of a lesser recovery does not justify refusing a motion to dismiss on the ground of forum non conveniens. '”
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.