McGee v. International Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1,380 federal appellate · 1,066 district · 3,066 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,791 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz (1985), World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson (1980)
1,380 federal appellate · 1,066 district · 3,066 state decisions — followed in 49 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Pennoyer v. Neff · Travelers Health Ass'n v. Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission · Hess v. Pawloski
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Hanson v. Denckla · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz
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 7,791 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.”
374 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“foreign corporations to suit in California on insurance contracts with residents of that State * * *.”
2 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.