31 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 249,650 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable
  2. Daimler AG v. Bauman

    571 U.S. 117 (2014)   Cited 5,548 times   236 Legal Analyses
    Holding that foreign corporations may not be subject to general jurisdiction "whenever they have an in-state subsidiary or affiliate"
  3. Goodyear Dunlop Tires Oper. v. Brown

    564 U.S. 915 (2011)   Cited 5,149 times   86 Legal Analyses
    Holding "the sales of petitioners' tires sporadically made in North Carolina through intermediaries" insufficient to support general jurisdiction
  4. Hertz Corp. v. Friend

    559 U.S. 77 (2010)   Cited 4,151 times   29 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a corporation's principal place of business is “the place where a corporation's officers direct, control, and coordinate the corporation's activities”
  5. Phillips v. County of Allegheny

    515 F.3d 224 (3d Cir. 2008)   Cited 16,649 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a district court need not permit a curative amendment if such amendment would be futile
  6. In re Burlington Coat Factory

    114 F.3d 1410 (3d Cir. 1997)   Cited 7,552 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a court may consider a "document integral to or explicitly relied upon in the complaint" when deciding a motion to dismiss
  7. Jumara v. State Farm Ins. Co.

    55 F.3d 873 (3d Cir. 1995)   Cited 2,399 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a plaintiff's choice of venue "should not be lightly disturbed"
  8. Thompson v. Real Estate Mortg. Network

    748 F.3d 142 (3d Cir. 2014)   Cited 496 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court may have been "correct" in not finding a "joint employment" relationship "if one considers only the name of the payor appearing on [plaintiff]'s pay stubs. But [plaintiff] alleges more. The Amended Complaint states that an employee of [defendant] conducted Thompson's training . . . indicating that [defendant] had at least some authority to 'promulgate work rules and assignments'"
  9. Brown v. Lockheed Martin Corp.

    814 F.3d 619 (2d Cir. 2016)   Cited 402 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "except in a truly ‘exceptional’ case, a corporate defendant may be treated as ‘essentially at home’ only where it is incorporated or maintains its principal place of business"
  10. Werwinski v. Ford Motor Co.

    286 F.3d 661 (3d Cir. 2002)   Cited 566 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in the absence of a controlling decision from a state's highest court on an issue of state law, a federal court sitting in diversity must predict how the court would rule by considering the relevant decisions of the state's appellate courts
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 342,514 times   917 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  12. Section 1441 - Removal of civil actions

    28 U.S.C. § 1441   Cited 49,654 times   148 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[a]ny civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction founded on a claim or right arising under the ... laws of the United States shall be removable without regard to the citizenship or residence of the parties.”
  13. Section 1404 - Change of venue

    28 U.S.C. § 1404   Cited 28,132 times   180 Legal Analyses
    Granting Class Plaintiffs' motion to transfer action in order to "facilitate a unified settlement approval process together with the class action cases in" In re Amex ASR
  14. Section 1391 - Venue generally

    28 U.S.C. § 1391   Cited 27,485 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Finding that venue lies where a "substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim" occurred
  15. Section 5301 - Persons

    42 Pa. C.S. § 5301   Cited 239 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Providing that registration as a foreign corporation in the state "constitute a sufficient basis of jurisdiction to enable the tribunals of this Commonwealth to exercise general personal jurisdiction over [it]"