Searle Company v. Cohn’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 30 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Freytag v. Commissioner (1991), Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
42 federal appellate · 30 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHopkins v. Kelsey-Hayes, Inc. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Weinberger v. Salfi · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Schweiker v. Wilson · United States v. Ortiz
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person against whom there is any of the causes of action specified in sections 2A:14-1 to 2A:14-5 and 2A:14-8 ... is not a resident of this state when such cause of action accrues.... or if any corporation ... not organized under the laws of this state, against whom there is such a cause of action, is not represented in this state by any person or officer upon whom summons or other original process may be served, when such a cause of action accrues or at any time before the expiration of the times so limited, the time or times during which such person ... is not residing within this state or such corporation ... is not so represented within this state shall not be computed as part of the periods of time within which such an action is required to be brought commenced by the section. The person entitled to any such action may commence the same after the accrual of the cause therefor, within the period of time limited therefor by such section, exclusive of such time or times of nonresidence or nonrepresentation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is to be upheld against equal protection attack if it is rationally related to the achievement of legitimate governmental ends.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,414 Julius Gray Leroy William Rodewald, United States of America, Intervenor v. First Winthrop Corporation Winthrop Financial Co. Inc. General Electric Company Peat Marwick Main & Company, Julius Gray Leroy William Rodewald, United States of America, Intervenor v. First Winthrop Corporation, Inc. Winthrop Financial Co. Inc. Peat Marwick Main & Company, Stephen Cope France Bolei Paul Costa Donald Fuller, on Behalf of Themselves and the Class They Represent, United States of America, Intervenor v. Price Waterhouse Kenneth Leventhal & Company Stephen Roulac, Jerry Simon, Donna Simon Herman Amaral Rose Amaral Roy Banogli Robert Kittle Linda Kittle, United States of America, Intervenors v. Neil A. Orsi Gene Koon E. Leo Bullock Provident Mutual Life Securities Co. · Leliefeld v. Johnson“a reasonable assumption that unrepresented foreign corporations, as a general rule, may not be so easy to find and serve”
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.