Dahl v. Collette’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1968 · most notably Brown v. Globe Laboratories, Inc. (1957), Hartmon v. National Heater Co. (1953)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co. · Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* **•£**« [the corporation’s presence] is manifested only by casual, sporadic, or isolated exertions of the kind which it ordinarily performs, these indicia of its presence are too equivocal and uncertain to support the inference that it is doing business here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Courts are agreed that solicitation, if the only evidence of the visitation of a foreign corporation, will not warrant a finding that the corporation is doing business so as to be subject to process.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the defendant be a foreign corporation the summons may be served by delivering a copy to any of its officers or agents within the state, * *”
1 later decision 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.