any civil action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 337 U.S. 75 - Kilpatrick v. Texas & P Ry Co · 1949Most cited · 86 citing opinions
what it says; and that Congress was fully informed as to the significance of § 1404(a).
How often courts cite the case defining “any civil action”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “any civil action” — 86 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.