Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
846 federal appellate · 429 district · 873 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,385 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz (1985), Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall (1984)
846 federal appellate · 429 district · 873 state decisions — followed in 46 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 · Pennoyer v. Neff · Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Alaska Industrial Board · Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co.
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Hanson v. Denckla · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · McGee v. International Life Insurance · 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 3,385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corporate activities of a foreign corporation which, under state statute, make it necessary for it to secure a license and to designate a statutory agent upon whom process may be served provide a helpful but not a conclusive test.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e may find jurisdiction if [the defendant] ... has `been carrying on in [the District] a continuous and systematic, but limited, part of its general business.'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“carried on in Ohio a continuous and systematic supervision of the necessarily limited wartime activities of the company.”
19 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.