Melfi v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Avdel Corporation v. Mecure (1971), Telephonic, Inc. v. Rosenblum (1975)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 · Pennoyer v. Neff · Hess v. Pawloski · 22 Ill. 2d 432 - Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · 11 Ill. 2d 378 - Nelson v. Miller
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Statute providing jurisdiction for courts of the state over a person transacting business within the state, by personal service outside the state, was not violative of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. 1953 Comp. § 21-3-16; U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 14. “2. A state may constitutionally require that a resident of a foreign jurisdiction doing business within the state be subject to its jurisdiction as to a cause of action arising out of business transacted by such' nonresident within the state. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simms v. Hobbs““A. Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this state, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts enumerated in this subsection thereby submits himself or his personal representative to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state' as to any cause of action arising from: (1) The transaction of any business within this state”;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * our statute was adopted from the Illinois statutes, Chapter 110, § 17, Smith-Hurd Illinois Statutes Annotated. In adopting the statute, it is presumed that the New Mexico Legislature also adopted the prior construction of the statute by the highest courts of Illinois. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Armijo
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.