621 So. 2d 1262 - Lowry v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2011
10 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
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Shaffer v. Heitner
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'. . . . " 'Crucial to the analysis is the element of foreseeability of the consequences of the defendant's activities. There must be a clear, firm nexus between the acts of the defendant and the consequences complained of in order to establish the necessary contacts.' " Duke v. Young , 496 So.2d 37 , 39 (Ala. 1986). "In Keelean v. Central Bank of the South , 544 So.2d 153 , 156 (Ala. 1989), we set forth a two-part analysis for determining whether an Alabama court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant: " '1) the determination of whether it is foreseeable to that nonresident defendant that he will be sued in this state; and " '2) the determination of the degree of contact that the nonresident defendant has with the state.' " Id. This analysis arose from a synthesis of the constitutional principles discussed earlier in this opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) Sufficient Contacts. A person has sufficient contacts with the state when that person, acting directly or by agent, is or may be legally responsible as a consequence of that person's:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“manipulate [its] decisions on in personam due process to effect a shield against ... [alleged] improper conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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