St Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas v. Robert Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 218 · 1913
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 117 district · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 586 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945), Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. (1952)
127 federal appellate · 117 district · 166 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 Smyth v. Ames · Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · Goldey v. Morning News · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · St. Clair v. Cox
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 586 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a general way it may be said that the business must be such in character and extent as to warrant the inference that the corporation has subjected itself to the jurisdiction and laws of the district in which it is served and in which it is bound to appear when a proper agent has been served with process.””
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here, then, was an authorized agent attending to this and presumably other matters of a kindred character, undertaking to act for and represent the company, negotiating for it and in its behalf declining to adjust the claim ruado against it. In this situation we think this was the transaction of business in behalf of the company by its authorized agent in such manner as to bring it within the district of New York, in which it was sued, and to make it subject to the service of process there.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provisions of the (Carmack) amendment had the effect of facilitating the remedy of the shipper by making the initial carrier responsible for the entire carriage, but the amendment was not intended, as we view it, to make foreign corporations through connecting carriers liable to suit in- a district where they were not carrying on business in the sense which has heretofore been held necessary to confer jurisdiction. St. Louis S. W. Ry. v. Alexander, 227 U.S. 218, 227 , 33 S.Ct. 245, 247 , 57 L.Ed. 486 (1913).”
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.