Cole v. Alton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2006
4 federal appellate ·
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 · Product Promotions, Inc. v. Cousteau · 62 Wash. 2d 106 - Tyee Construction Co. v. Dulien Steel Products, Inc. · Brown v. Flowers Industries, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... clear that in the instant case the individual movants could not have reasonably foreseen that they would be haled into court in Mississippi. The plaintiffs have not alleged or shown that the individuals committed any act in this state of a personal nature apart from the corporate function. Plaintiffs injuries claimed to re-suit from “decisions, actions and activities of the movants acting in the scope of their employment and in the furtherance of the business of the corporation by which they were employed,” Webb , 357 F.Supp. [at] 924, and therefore, because movants at all times believed in good faith that they were acting on behalf of a lawful corporation, this court concludes that jurisdiction cannot, within the bounds of “fair play and substantial justice,” be asserted vicariously over the individual movants.”
1 later decision 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.