Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas Sa v. Schichau-Unterweser Ag Bv’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 368 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably In re Volkswagen of America, Inc. (2008), Alpine View Company Limited
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Kashif v. United States · Hellenic Lines Limited v. Rhoditis
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Convenience is the ultimate consideration for a district court in balancing the private interest factors, including the forum choice of the plaintiff. When a plaintiff chooses a foreign forum for its claims, courts are reluctant to assume that convenience motivated that choice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the [district] court has considered all relevant public and private interest factors, and where its balancing of these factors is reasonable, its decision deserves substantial deference.”
1 later decision 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.