Chicago Life Insurance v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 25 · 1917
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 6 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982), Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982)
69 federal appellate · 6 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Sparf v. United States · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Goldey v. Morning News · Thompson v. Whitman
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hat acts of the defendant shall be deemed a submission to [a court's] power is a matter upon which States may differ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no doubt of the general proposition that in a suit upon a judgment the jurisdiction of the court rendering it over the person of the defendant may be inquired into.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court that renders judgment against a defendant thereby tacitly asserts, if it does not do so expressly, that it has jurisdiction over that defendant.”
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.