452 F. Supp. 44 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 state decisions
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Columbia Metal Culvert Co. v. Kaiser Industries Corp. · George Schmidt, C8126 v. Lowell D. Hewitt, Supt · 395 F. Supp. 719 - Zimmermann v. Zimmermann · Witt v. Scully · George Transport & Rigging Co. v. International Publications Equipment Corp.
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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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is our prediction . . . that the Pennsylvania Appellate Courts will not determine that “doing business” includes making payments under a separation agreement . . . particularly where . . . executed by the nonresident defendant in New York . . . and [where] by its terms this section [of the Longarm Statute] applies only to foreign corporations and not to nonresident individuals. Therefore there is no statutory direction to extend [the then longarm provisions] to their constitutional limits. Id at 47.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) General Rule. A tribunal of this Commonwealth may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person . . . who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action or other matter arising from such person: (3) Causing harm or tortious injury by an act or omission in this Commonwealth. (4) Causing harm or tortious injury in this Commonwealth by an act or omission outside this Commonwealth. (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any nonresident of this Commonwealth who, acting outside of this Commonwealth . .. shall have caused any harm within this Commonwealth .. . shall be subject to service of process in any civil action or proceeding instituted in the courts of this Commonwealth arising out of or by reason of any such conduct . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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