Cimmaron Corp. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably King v. American Family Mutual Insurance (2011), Grizzly Security Armored Express, Inc. v. Armored Group, LLC (2011)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Bi-Lo Foods, Inc. v. Alpine Bank, Clifton · Edsall Const. Co., Inc. v. Robinson · Threlkeld v. Colorado · Bird v. Hiller · Seal v. Hart
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons found within the state of Montana are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state. In addition, any person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any claim for relief arising from the doing personally, through an employee, or through an agent, of any of the following acts: (a) the transaction of any business within this state; (b) the commission of any act which results in accrual within this state of a tort action; (c) the ownership, use or possession of any property, or of any interest therein, situated within this state; (d) contracting to insure any person, property or risk located within this state at the time of contracting; (e) entering into a contract for services to be rendered or for materials to be furnished in this state by such person; or”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice embodied in the due process clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.