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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 23 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from First Nat. Bank v. Guerine.

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1 First Nat. Bank v. Guerine Anchor
ill · 2002
green “court congestion is a relatively insignificant factor, especially where the record does not show the other forum would resolve the case more quickly.” 14
2 Kwasniewski v. Schaid
ill · 1992
green “it is all but incongruous for defendants to argue that their own home county is inconvenient.” 6
3 Bland v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
ill · 1987
green “if central emphasis were placed on any one factor, the forum non conveniens doctrine would lose much of the very flexibility that makes it so valuable” 3

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