Fern v. Immergut’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6 district · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rush v. Savchuk · Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n · Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott Co. · Sawtelle v. Farrell · Boit v. Gar-Tec Products, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, as here, the assertion of in personam jurisdiction has been challenged ... a plaintiff must make a prima facie showing of evidence that, if credited, would be sufficient to support findings of all facts essential to personal jurisdiction.”
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.