Smith v. Halliburton Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Tercero v. ROMAN CATH. DIOCESE OF NORWICH (2002), Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, Inc. (1996)
4 district · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Shugrue · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this state, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts enumerated in this subsection thereby submits himself or his personal representative to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any cause of action arising from: (1) the transaction of any business within this state; (3) the commission of a tortious act within this state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.