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← 62 MASSAPPCT 732 - Cepeda v. Kass

Cepeda v. Kass’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 31 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. Miller · Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n · Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott Co. · Boit v. Gar-Tec Products, Inc. · Foster-Miller, Inc. v. Babcock & Wilcox Canada

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In conducting the requisite analysis under the prima facie standard, we take specific facts affirmatively alleged by the plaintiff as true (whether or not disputed) and construe them in the light most congenial to the plaintiff's jurisdictional claim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “[u]se of this prima facie standard ... preliminarily reserves the jurisdictional issue, unless waived by the defendant, for final determination at the [evidentiary hearing or] trial, pursuant to a preponderance of the evidence standard.”
    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.