Tramp Oil and Marine Ltd v. M/v Mermaid I’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 48 · 1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 federal appellate · 9 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ismissal in one forum is only proper upon a supported finding that another adequate forum exists where the plaintiff can litigate essentially the same claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he doctrine of forum non conveniens presupposes at least two forums in which the defendant is amenable to process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.