Welsh v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 436 · 1980
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. Miller (1981), Theunissen v. Matthews (1991)
41 federal appellate · 7 district · 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 · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Gibbs v. Buck · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the defendant must purposefully avail himself of the privilege of acting in the forum state or causing a consequence in the forum state. Second, the cause of action must arise from the defendant’s activities there. Finally, the acts of the defendant or consequences caused by the defendant must have a substantial enough connection with the forum state to make the exercise of jurisdiction over the defendant reasonable.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action arising from the person's: "(1) Transacting any business in this state; * *”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate facts which support a finding of jurisdiction in order to avoid a motion to dismiss.”
11 later decisions 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.