Maganlal Company v. Mg Chemical Company Inc’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 164 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (2000), Pt United Can Company Ltd v. Crown Cork & Seal Company Inc W (1998)
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Holywell Corp. v. Bank of New York · Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the balance of convenience tilts strongly in favor of trial in the foreign forum.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the right to determine whether the district court reached an erroneous conclusion on either the facts or the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to determine where trial will be most convenient and will serve the ends of justice. To prevail on a motion to dismiss based on forum non conveniens, a defendant must demonstrate that an adequate alternative forum exists and that, considering the relevant private and public interest factors set forth in Gilbert, the balance of convenience tilts strongly in favor of trial in the foreign forum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.