State Ex Inf. Danforth v. Reader's Digest Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2018
3 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1302 · 18 U.S.C. § 1461 · 39 U.S.C. § 3001 (Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act) · 39 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Hanson v. Denckla · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Roth v. United States · Hines v. Davidowitz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is obvious that there would be no “... direct, physical interference with federal activities under the postal power or some direct, immediate burden on the performance of the postal functions ...” (Roth, case, supra). The postal service would not be affected in its operations; there would be no responsibility on its behalf to screen mail addressed to Missourians; in no sense would the service be an enforcement agent of the lottery laws of Missouri; and granting of the relief sought would not be an attempt to decide what can or cannot be accepted and delivered as mail. Only the respondent would be told that it cannot conduct its lottery (if, in fact, it is found to be a lottery) in Missouri or advertise it or solicit participation in it from residents of Missouri. Respondent would not be penalized for using the mails but for conducting an enterprise which is repugnant to the laws and public policy of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person or firm, whether or not a citizen or resident of this state, or any corporation, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts enumerated in this section, thereby submits such person, firm, or corporation, and, if an individual, his personal representative, to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any cause of action arising from the doing of any of such acts: (1) The transaction of any business within this state ... (3) The commission of a tortious act within this state ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . was to extend the jurisdiction of the courts of this state over nonresident defendants to that extent permissible under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.” State ex rel. Deere and Company v. Pinnell, 454 S.W.2d 889, 892 (banc 1970).”
1 later decision 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.