Windsor v. Windsor’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2016
21 state decisions
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 · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, a claim of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant presents a two-fold inquiry: (1) is the assertion of jurisdiction authorized by statute, and (2) if authorized, is the exercise of jurisdiction under State law consistent with basic due process requirements mandated by the United States Constitution? Jurisdiction is permissible only when both questions draw affirmative responses.” ... A paramount due process requirement is that there exist “minimum contacts” between the nonresident defendant and the forum state . . . Such contacts must not be merely casual or accidental, but must rather reflect acts performed by the defendant “by which [he] purposefully avails [himself] of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum State, thus invoking the benefits and protection of its laws.” Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a defendant is permissible under this analysis is dependent upon the particular facts of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action in law or equity arising from the person’s . . . maintaining a domicile in this commonwealth while a party to a personal or marital relationship out of which arises a claim for divorce, alimony, property settlement, . . . child support or child custody; or the commission of any act giving rise to such a claim . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Miller“[nlo affidavit, testimony, or authenticated or verified document even intimates, let alone establishes, that the wife and her children were caused 'to flee”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.