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Ruhrgas Ag v. Marathon Oil Co.

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Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
526 U.S. 574
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
124 of 124
Citing cases (total)
3,295
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co. is good law: all 124 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The opinions positively applied Ruhrgas's jurisdiction-before-merits rule, its recognition that courts have an independent duty to examine subject-matter jurisdiction, or its discretion to choose among threshold nonmerits grounds.
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Several opinions reported the earlier Marathon Oil appeal’s procedural history; other treatment language concerned unrelated cases. The Third Circuit read Ruhrgas narrowly in Malaysia International Shipping Corp. v. Sinochem International Co., but the Supreme Court reversed that ruling in Sinochem International Co. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corp. (2007) and applied Ruhrgas to allow dismissal for forum non conveniens before resolving jurisdiction.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

3,295 later cases cite Ruhrgas Ag v. Marathon Oil Co.; 124 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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