Calder v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
690 federal appellate · 877 district · 941 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,522 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986), Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz (1985)
690 federal appellate · 877 district · 941 state decisions — followed in 44 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 · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · McGee v. International Life Insurance
Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Hanson v. Denckla
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 4,522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should reasonably anticipate being haled into court there.”
251 later decisions quote this exact passage““[t]he person has sufficient contacts with this state, as set forth in subdivision (a)(2) of this rule, so that the prosecution of the action against the person in this state is not inconsistent with the Constitution of this state or the Constitution of the United States.... ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intentional conduct [in the foreign state was] calculated to cause injury to [the plaintiff] in [the forum state].”
6 later decisions 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.