Arnold v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 761 · 1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Houltin v. United States · Burnett v. Grattan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a new statute deals only with procedure, prima facie it applies to all actions — to those which have accrued or are pending, and to future actions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The new language accepts venue in a district in which “a substantial part” of the activities (out of which the claim arose) took place, and there may be several districts that qualify as a situs of such “substantial” activities. The fact that substantial activities took place in district B does not disqualify district A as proper venue as long as “substantial” activities took place in A, too. Indeed, district A should not be disqualified even if it is shown that the activities in B were more substantial, or even the most substantial. Any other approach would restore the pinpointing problem that created the difficulties under the now discarded “claim arose” standard. If the selected district’s contacts are “substantial”, it should make no difference that another’s are more so, or the most so. The House Report of the Committee on the Judiciary (Report 101-734, p. 23) said, in referring to the “substantial. ... events” clause, that, [t]he great advantage of referring to the place where things happened ... is that it avoids the litigation-breeding phrase “in which the claim arose”. ... The “events ... occurred” idea is what longarm personal jurisdiction is based on,____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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