Patin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Jackson, Chamlink Corp. v. Merritt Extruder Corp. (2006)
10 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · Milliken v. Meyer · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Rush v. Savchuk
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ederal courts have consistently acknowledged that it is compatible with due process for a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over an individual ... that would not ordinarily be subject to personal jurisdiction in that court when the individual ... is an alter ego ... of a corporation that would be subject to personal jurisdiction in that court.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are considered to be one and the same under the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.