McLaughlin v. ARCO Polymers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 426 · 1983
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Mills v. Maine (1997), Foster v. Chesapeake Insurance (1991)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 1631 · 28 U.S.C. § 610 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Marine Bank v. Weaver · Bruffett v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Weaver v. Marine Bank · Baltimore Bank for Cooperatives v. Farmers Cheese Cooperative & Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board · Spicer v. Hilton
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action ... to any other such court in which the action .., could have been brought at the time it was filed or noticed, and the action ... shall proceed as if it had been filed in or noticed for the court to which it is transferred on the date upon which it was actually filed in... the court from which it is transferred.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) General rule — If an appeal or other matter is taken to or brought in a court or magisterial district of this Commonwealth which does not have jurisdiction of the appeal or other matter, the court or district justice shall not quash such appeal or dismiss the matter, but shall transfer the record thereof to the proper tribunal of this Commonwealth ... (b) Federal cases: (1) Subsection (a) shall also apply to any matter transferred or remanded by any United. States court for a district embracing any part of this Commonwealth ... Where a matter is filed in any United States court for a district embracing any part of this Commonwealth and the matter is dismissed by the United States court for lack of jurisdiction, any litigant in the matter filed may transfer the matter to a court or magisterial district of this Commonwealth ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]henever it appears by suggestion of the parties or otherwise that the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter, the court shall dismiss the action.”
2 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.