Etra v. Matta’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Bank Brussels Lambert v. Fiddler Gonzalez & Rodriguez (1999), Williams v. Gould, Inc. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 32 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 personal jurisdiction over any non-domiciliary ... who in person or through an agent: 1. transacts any business within the state or contracts anywhere to supply goods or services in the state_”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[v]iewing the totality of [the defendant's] contacts with this State, in the form of written and telephonic communications and the additional provision of the experimental drug, we believe them to be too insubstantial to amount to such a 'transaction of business' as to warrant subjecting [the defendant] to suit in this forum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because decedent's treatment program involved the continued use of Aprindine, available only from a clinical investigator such as [the defendant], decedent was [also] provided with a supply of the drug to take back to New York.”
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.