McGowan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 560 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Cutco Industries, Inc. v. Naughton (1986), Henderson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Navas (1998)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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.
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 560 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Acts which are the basis of jurisdiction. As to a cause of action arising from any of the acts enumerated in this section, a court may exercise jurisdiction over any non-domiciliary, or his executor or' administrator, who in person or through an agent: 2. commits a tortious act within the state, except as to a cause of action for defamation of character arising from the act____”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“articulable nexus between the business transacted and the cause of action sued upon”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a substantial relationship to the transaction out of which the instant cause of action arose”
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.