Ludwig v. General Binding Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1973
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co · Consolidated Textile Corporation v. Gregory · Riverbank Laboratories v. Hardwood Products Corp. · Echeverry v. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendant is a foreign corporation * * * and (a) is doing business in Wisconsin at the time of service, or (b) the cause of action against it arose out of the doing of business in Wisconsin, service may be made * * * by delivering within or without the state a copy of the summons to any officer, director or managing agent of the corporation.””
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.