Martel v. Stafford’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 1244 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ticketmaster-New York, Inc. v. Alioto (1994), Foster-Miller, Inc. v. Babcock & Wilcox Canada (1995)
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director · McWherter v. Brooks · Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia v. Gold Issue Mining & Milling Company
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.
“a plaintiff who 'selects a federal forum in preference to an available state forum may not expect the federal court to steer state law into unprecedented configurations.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Saporita exception [to the common-law rule that an executor appointed in another state is not subject to suit in Massachusetts unless a statute dictates to the contrary] confers personal jurisdiction over a foreign executor only when the testator manifests sufficient contacts with Massachusetts to support the exercise of jurisdiction . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mojtabai v. Mojtabai“ruling that a plaintiff who purposefully avails himself of a particular forum surrenders jurisdictional objections to claims arising out of the same transaction that are brought against him in the same forum”
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.