Baxter v. Coppock’s Empirical Analysis

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ * * * The complaint was served upon the defendant through the Secretary of the Commonwealth, purportedly in accord with the provisions of § 1011, subd. B of the Business Corporation Law of May 5, 1933 as amended P.L. 364, 15 P.S. § 2852-1011. “ ‘Defendant, a non-registered foreign corporation, has filed a motion to dismiss and an amended motion to dismiss the complaint challenging the jurisdiction of the Court over its person upon the grounds that (1) it was not “doing business” in Pennsylvania and (2) the action did not arise out of any “acts or omissions” of the defendant in Pennsylvania.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Elish v. McDonnell & Miller, Inc.

2. ““There is no justification for an assertion that the latest interpretation of the Pennsylvania Corporation Law as to substituted service controls and decides a case wherein there was actual, personal service upon an agent of a foreign corporation at its established place of business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Elish v. McDonnell & Miller, Inc.