King v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 1301 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Trackwell v. United States Government (2007), Bruns v. National Credit Union Administration (1997)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (§ 125 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Scott v. Rosenberg · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Wood v. Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, Inc. · Duplantier v. United States · Liberation News Service v. Eastland
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would not be in the interests of justice to transfer this case because, among other reasons, King herself expressed no interest in transfer and because `of the fact that the action smacks of harassment and bad faith on the plaintiff's part in that it appears that she filed it here after repeatedly losing on at least some similar claims in California.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e) Actions where defendant is officer or employee of the United States— (1) In general. — A civil action in which a defendant is an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof acting in his official capacity or under color of legal authority, or an agency of the United States, or the United States, may, except as otherwise provided by law, be brought in any judicial district in which (A) a defendant in the action resides, (B) a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or a substantial part of property that is the subject of the action is situated, or (C) the plaintiff resides if no real property is involved in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought.”
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.