O'BRIEN v. Eubanks’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012
1 district · 6 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 · Van Schaack & Co. v. District Court, Eighteenth JD · Weaver Construction Co. v. District Court · Ruggieri v. General Well Service, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e agree with defendant Kemco that service of process on Eubanks as its president was insufficient to give Colorado jurisdiction. Eubanks was not in Colorado to do business for the company. Because there were no other contacts between Kemco and Colorado, the transitory and non-business related presence of its president could not support finding the corporation’s presence within the state to be sufficient to confer jurisdiction....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“service is made upon a natural person found within the state, the minimum contacts analysis in inapplicable.”
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.