Consolidated Textile Corporation v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 85 · 1933
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 45 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. (1984), United States v. Scophony Corp. of America (1948)
39 federal appellate · 45 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co · Truax v. Corrigan · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco 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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The general rule deducible from all our decisions is that the business must be of such nature and character as to warrant the inference that the corporation has subjected itself to the local jurisdiction, and is by its duly authorized officers or agents present within the State or district where service is attempted.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to hold a foreign corporation not licensed to do business in a state responsible under the process of a local court the record must disclose that it was carrying on business there at the time of attempted service. International Harvester Co. [ of America ] v. [ Commonwealth of ] Kentucky, 234 U.S. 579, 583, 585 , 34 S.Ct. 944 , 58 L.Ed. 1479 [1481, 1482]. (Italics mine.) In People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co., 246 U.S. 79 , 38 S.Ct. 233 , 234, 62 L.Ed. 587 (1917), service was attempted upon one W.R. Irby. The facts as disclosed by the opinion were as follows:”
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.