Rothluebbers v. Obee’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2025
1 district · 14 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the defendant must purposefully avail himself of the privilege of acting in the forum state, thus invoking the benefits and protections of its laws. Second, the cause of action must arise from defendant’s activities directed at the forum state. Finally, the acts of defendant must have substantial connection with the forum state to make the exercise of jurisdiction over defendant a reasonable one.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The rights and liabilities of the parties with respect to an issue in tort are determined by the local law of the state which, with respect to that issue, has the most significant relationship to the occurrence and the parties under the principles stated in § 6. (2) Contacts to be taken into account in applying the principles of § 6 to determine the law applicable to an issue include: (a) the place where the injury occurred, (b) the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred, (c) the domicil, residence, nationality, place of incorporation and place of business of the parties, and (d) the place where the relationship, if any, between the parties is centered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The driver and the company] were not mere tour novices. There is evidence in the record that this was not the first tour that they conducted through the Midwest. It also was not mere happenstance that [the driver and the company] operated in South Dakota. The group had two planned South Dakota stops. In light of these facts, the trial court did not err in determining [the driver and the company] purposefully availed themselves to the laws of South Dakota and as a result it was foreseeable that they could be ‘hauled into court’ in South Dakota.”
1 later decision 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.