Caplan v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Evans Cabinet Corp. v. Kitchen International, Inc. (2010), E.C.O. v. Compton (2013)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Milliken v. Meyer · Pennoyer v. Neff · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must provide the defendant with reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or a nonresident to be subject to personal jurisdiction in Massachusetts, there must be a statute authorizing jurisdiction and the exercise of jurisdiction must be 'consistent with basic due process requirements mandated by the United States Constitution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roch v. Mollica
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.