McGraw v. Matthaei’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 5 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Defendant has placed great emphasis on the fact that he was not physically present in the state when he executed the note. This Court is of the opinion that one need not be physically present in the state to ‘transact business within the state.’ “Modern technology has taken us far beyond the point where two men must stand in each other’s physical presence to transact business. Widespread use of the telephone and the mails make actual physical presence unnecessary in many cases. New methods of communication, such as the picture phone, allow a businessman to be ‘electronically present’ in a state. Exact copies of executed documents can be transmitted electronically in a matter of seconds. “For all practical purposes, transactions accomplished with such devices have the same effect as if the two men had been in each other’s physical presence.” 208 N.W.2d at 542 [quoting from McGraw v. Matthaei, 340 F.Supp. 162,164 (E.D.Mich. 1972)].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 508 F. Supp. 434 - Thermal Insulation Systems, Inc. v. Ark-Seal Corp.