forum clause
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 407 U.S. 1 - M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · 1972Most cited · 5,770 citing opinions
inconvenience exception
it should be incumbent on the party seeking to escape his contract to show that trial in the contractual forum will be so gravely difficult and inconvenient that he will for all practical purposes be deprived of his day in court
How often courts cite the case defining “forum clause”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “forum clause” — 5,751 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.