United States of America v. Swiss American Bank Ltd Swiss American National Bank Inter-Maritime Bank Geneva’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.3d 610 · 2001
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 154 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Purdue Research Foundation v. Sanofi-Synthelabo, S.A. (2003), Harlow v. Children's Hospital (2005)
23 federal appellate · 154 district · 15 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 · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court may exercise authority over a defendant by virtue of either general or specific jurisdiction. Specific jurisdiction exists when there is a demonstrable nexus between a plaintiffs claims and a defendant’s forum-based activities. General jurisdiction exists when the litigation is not directly founded on the defendant’s forum-based contacts, but the defendant has nevertheless engaged in continuous and systematic activity, unrelated to the suit, in the forum state.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n federal question cases . . . a plaintiff need only show that the defendant has adequate contacts with the United States as a whole . . . [H]owever, the plaintiff must still ground its service of process in a federal statute or civil rule.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a diligent plaintiff who sues an out-of-state corporation and who makes out a colorable case for the existence of in personam jurisdiction may well be entitled to a modicum of jurisdictional discovery if the corporation interposes a jurisdictional defense.”
7 later decisions 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.