Daugherty v. Inland Tugs Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• relying on “unchallenged assertions” from preliminary objections to reverse denial of forum non conveniens claim pursuant to federal law/policy considerations under Federal Employers Liability Act
• reversing the trial court’s dismissal of the defendants’ preliminary objections to venue based on forum non conveniens and staying the proceedings in the Pennsylvania forum pending the plaintiffs institution of suit in an appropriate forum
• contacts with Pennsylvania so slight that lower court abused its discretion in dismissing defendants’ preliminary objections on grounds of forum non conveniens

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Petty v. Suburban General Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-23· cited 69×
• Shewbrooks v. AC AND S. INC.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-11· cited 64×
• Koenig v. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-07· cited 57×
• Shears v. Rigley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-16· cited 45×
• Miller v. Gay
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 44×
• Farley v. McDonnell Douglas Truck Services, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-17· cited 36×
• Fox v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-06· cited 32×
• Beatrice Foods Co. v. Proctor & Schwartz, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 30×
• Johnson v. G.D. Searle & Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-01-18· cited 30×
• Ernest v. Fox Pool Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 25×
• Aerospace Finance Leasing, Inc. v. New Hampshire Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-30· cited 22×
• Cinousis v. Hechinger Department Store
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-02· cited 21×
• Vogel v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-20· cited 19×
• Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Devore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-13· cited 15×
• Alter v. Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-20· cited 10×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-03· cited 6×
• Centerre Bank of Kansas City v. Arthur Young & Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-27· cited 6×
• Torrijas v. Midwest Steel Erection Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-12-21· cited 4×
• Altschuler v. Altschuler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-12· cited 4×
• Westerby v. Johns-Manville Corp.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1982-11-16· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Shutte v. Armco Steel Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1970-08-14· cited 584×
• Walker v. Ohio River Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-11-10· cited 58×
• Norman v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 52×