venue privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 296 U.S. 222 - Alexander v. Hillman · 1935Most cited · 529 citing opinions
Judicial Code § 51
That provision does not affect the general jurisdiction of District Courts, but merely confers a personal privilege that may be waived.
How often courts cite the case defining “venue privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “venue privilege” — 526 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.