Rush v. Savchuk’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
170 federal appellate · 202 district · 416 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,222 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson (1980), Calder v. Jones (1984)
170 federal appellate · 202 district · 416 state decisions — followed in 37 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 · Hanson v. Denckla · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Shaffer v. Heitner · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Shaffer v. Heitner · 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 1,222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relationship among the defendant, the forum, and the litigation.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]ue 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.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“To say that `a debt follows the debtor' is simply to say that intangible property has no actual situs, and a debt may be sued on wherever there is jurisdiction over the debtor.”
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.