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Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

17,388
cited by 17,388 later decisions
37
cited 37 times by the Supreme Court
49
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

1,790 federal appellate · 3,181 district · 5,455 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17,388 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty. (1987), Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc. (1992)

1,790 federal appellate · 3,181 district · 5,455 state decisions — followed in 49 states

5.8k019851990200020102020decided

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

reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 2103

Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson

Cited together with International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Hanson v. Denckla · Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty.

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 17,388 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “should reasonably anticipate being haled into court”
    1,407 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty. · Burnham v. Superior Court of Cal., County of Marin
  2. “prior negotiations and contemplated future consequences, along with the terms of the contract and the parties' actual course of dealing.”
    69 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Stewart v. Lafrance Equipment Corporation · Rar Incorporated v. Turner Diesel Limited
  3. “automatically establish sufficient minimum contacts in the other party's home forum.”
    35 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jack Henry & Assocs., Inc. v. Plano Encryption Techs. LLC · F8 Viet. Co. v. U.S. Dist. Court for the N. Dist. of Cal. (In re Boon Global Ltd.)

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.