McWane Cast Iron Pipe Corp. v. McDowell-Wellman Engineering Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court abused it discretion in denying the stay of a Delaware action in view of the pendency of an earlier filed Alabama action
• noting that discretion should be exercised freely to dismiss or stay where there is a prior pending action.
• noting that McWane arose from appeal of a denial of forum non conveniens relief in an ongoing case
• deferring to plaintiff's initial choice of forum where the Delaware action is not the first filed
• setting forth a multi-factor test to determine if Delaware action should be dismissed or stayed in favor of first-filed litigation pending elsewhere
• noting the “duplication of time, effort, and expense” that occurs when the same action proceeds in two courts, wasting resources and risking inconsistent judgments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• In Re Citigroup Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2009-02-24· cited 394×
• Production Resources Group, L.L.C. v. NCT Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2004-11-17· cited 157×
• Ison v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-05-25· cited 59×
• Taylor v. LSI Logic Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-02-24· cited 50×
• Rich ex rel. Fuqi International, Inc. v. Yu Kwai Chong
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2013-04-25· cited 48×
• In Re the Topps Co. Shareholders Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2007-05-09· cited 41×
• El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. TransAmerican Natural Gas Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-10-06· cited 41×
• Aveta Inc. v. Bengoa
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2009-12-24· cited 39×
• Gramercy Emerging Markets Fund v. Allied Irish Banks, P.L.C.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-10-27· cited 39×
• Chrysler First Business Credit Corp. v. 1500 Locust Ltd. Partnership
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-09-18· cited 38×
• States Marine Lines v. Domingo
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-07-16· cited 36×
• Biondi v. Scrushy
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2003-01-16· cited 33×
• Lisa, S.A. v. Mayorga
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-04-20· cited 30×
• Sagarra Inversiones, S.L. v. Cementos Portland Valderrivas, S.A.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-12-28· cited 28×
• OTK Associates, LLC v. Friedman
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-02-05· cited 26×
• American Home Products Corp. v. Adriatic Insurance
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1995-12-11· cited 24×
• Playtex Family Products, Inc. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1989-04-13· cited 23×
• Box v. Box
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-07-29· cited 23×
• Williams Gas Supply Co. v. Apache Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-06-20· cited 22×
• Monsanto Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1988-10-21· cited 21×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• General Foods Corporation v. Cryo-Maid, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1964-03-05· cited 86×
• Parvin v. Kaufmann
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-11-29· cited 44×
• General Foods Corp. v. Cryo-Maid, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1964-03-05· cited 42×
• Kolber v. Holyoke Shares, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-09-22· cited 38×
• Lanova Corp. v. Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1949-01-28· cited 21×
• Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1932-12-12· cited 21×
• Chadwick v. Gill
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1928-04-20· cited 19×
• Research Corporation v. Radio Corporation of America
  D. Delaware· 1960-02-25· cited 12×