Shewbrooks v. AC AND S. INC.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the doctrine of forum non conveniens cannot be applied to dismiss a case if it is barred elsewhere by a statute of limitations, unless the defendant is willing to waive the statute of limitations defense
• Delaware residents' action against eighteen nonresident corporate defendants for asbestos poisoning which were engaged in business in state and subject to process in state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McDaniel v. Ritter
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-29· cited 116×
• Cycles, Ltd. v. W.J. Digby, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-12-06· cited 95×
• Bell v. Bell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 88×
• Smith v. Sneed
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-23· cited 70×
• Trust Company Bank v. United States Gypsum Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-02-24· cited 68×
• Allison v. ITE Imperial Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-03-26· cited 49×
• Illinois Central RR Co. v. Travis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-28· cited 45×
• Long v. MEMORIAL HOSP. AT GULFPORT
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-10-11· cited 40×
• Patel v. Telerent Leasing Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 36×
• Missouri Pacific R. Co. v. Tircuit
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-29· cited 30×
• Johnson v. G.D. Searle & Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-01-18· cited 30×
• Rawls v. Parker
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-03· cited 28×
• DeFoe v. Great Southern Nat. Bank, NA
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-19· cited 27×
• Clark v. Luvel Dairy Products, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-16· cited 24×
• Southern Pacific Transp. Co. v. Fox
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-22· cited 22×
• Stanbury v. Larsen
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-12-10· cited 21×
• Kedy v. A.W. Chesterton Co.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-05-09· cited 18×
• Williams v. Taylor MacHinery, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-07-13· cited 16×
• Albert v. Allied Glove Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-11-30· cited 16×
• Paul Walls v. General Motors, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-07-18· cited 13×

Cites

122 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
  Supreme Court· 1938-04-25· cited 18,491×
• Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 12,253×
• Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-06-02· cited 8,668×
• Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-10· cited 5,292×
• Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-25· cited 4,581×
• Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-20· cited 2,597×
• Cohens v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1821-03-18· cited 2,076×
• England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
  Supreme Court· 1964-01-13· cited 1,211×
• Koster v. (American) Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-10· cited 1,073×
• Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson
  Supreme Court· 1945-06-18· cited 800×
• Campbell v. Holt
  Supreme Court· 1885-12-07· cited 499×
• Islamic Republic of Iran v. Pahlavi
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-07-05· cited 382×
• Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1907-11-18· cited 280×
• Washington v. W. C. Dawson & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1924-02-25· cited 268×
• Slater v. Mexican National Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1904-04-11· cited 239×
• Davis v. Mills
  Supreme Court· 1904-05-16· cited 237×
• Heavner v. Uniroyal, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1973-06-05· cited 218×
• Mitchell v. Craft
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 177×
• Tedford v. Dempsey
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-14· cited 168×
• Hughes v. Fetter
  Supreme Court· 1951-06-04· cited 162×