Otto v. Hirl’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1974
2 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Goldenberg v. Murphy · Isaacks v. Jeffers · Armstrong Cork Co. v. Merchants' Refrigerating Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Change of venue: (a) For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.” (Italics supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Subsection (a) was drafted in accordance with the doctrine of forum non conveniens, permitting transfer to a more convenient forum, even though ■the' venue is proper. * * * The new subsection requires the court to determine that the transfer is necessary for convenience of the parties and witnesses, and further, that it is . in the interest of justice to do’ so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Halford
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.