Patch v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 754 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 580 F. Supp. 1082 - Davis v. Costa-Gavras (1984), Renfroe v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1982)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · Leroy v. Great Western United Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The borrowing statute is primarily designed to prevent a plaintiff from forum shopping to gain more time to initiate a cause of action. A purpose of statutorily specified venue is to protect the defendant against the risk that a plaintiff will select an unfair or inconvenient place of trial. Additionally, Missouri’s venue statute prevents a plaintiff seeking damages for libel in a widely distributed publication from gaming privileges of venue not allowed by law to a plaintiff in tort actions other than libel, in which the cause of action could accrue only in one county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Givens v. Quinn“As the majority correctly points out, borrowing legislation has been seen as a permissible method legislators may use to instruct the courts in their dealings with limitation problems dealing with conflicts of law. Borrowing statutes, when applicable, largely preempt the court’s examination into alternative conflicts of law theories because the statute requires a mechanical and uniform result intended to discourage forum shopping.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A majority of states are said to follow this place of injury rule. Estes, Borrowing Statutes of Limitations and the Confíict of Laws, 15 U.Fla.L.Rev. 33, 47 (1962); Vernon, Statutes of Limitations in the Conflict of Laws: Borrowing Statutes, 32 Rocky Mt.L.Rev. 287, 302 (1960). This rule works well for injuries caused by a single act or for injuries occurring at a single location ....”
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.