Travelers Health Ass'n v. Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 643 · 1950
Citation profile
444 federal appellate · 208 district · 491 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,653 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz (1985), Hanson v. Denckla (1958)
444 federal appellate · 208 district · 491 state decisions — followed in 45 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 · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Pennoyer v. Neff · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Hanson v. Denckla · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson
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 1,653 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reach out beyond one state and create continuing relationships and obligations with citizens of another state”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“due process requires only that in order to subject a defendant to a judgment in personam, if he be not present within the territory of the forum, he have certain minimum contacts with it such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend `traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * Instead we accorded `great weight' to the `consequences' of the contractual obligations in the state where the insured resided and the `degree of interest' that state had in seeing that those obligations were faithfully carried out.”
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.