Adden v. Middlebrooks’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 1147 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Peterson v. Highland Music, Inc. (1998), Continental Bank, N.A. v. Meyer (1993)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 · Scheuer v. Rhodes · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Hanson v. Denckla
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not purposefully conduct any. activities within Illinois nor could they reasonably anticipate being forced to defend a negligence suit there. An escaped prisoner might flee to virtually any state and commit a tortious act there. This is especially true when six weeks have elapsed between the time of escape and the commission of the tort. The fact that apparently one of the two escapees in this case was originally from Illinois does not alter this analysis. If it did, we would be concluding that Department of Corrections officials should expect to be sued in any state which was at some point the “home” of a person incarcerated in Louisiana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hansen v. Scott“rather than implementing the Indiana Civil Rights Law, thereby depriving her of her constitutional right to due process. Further, Crenshaw takes issue with the district court's determination that the defendants are immune from liability. Since a public officer is not individually liable for her performance of discretionary acts, but may be liable for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crenshaw v. Baynerd“These include whether the agency may sue and be sued in its own name, whether any legislative provision stating that the agency performs an essential governmental function exists, whether the agency has power to buy and/or sell property in its own name, and whether the agency is accorded independent status under state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Choudhuri
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.