Tavoulareas v. Comnas’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 192 · 1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably GTE New Media Services Inc. v. BellSouth Corp. (2000), Reuber v. United States (1984)
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Margoles v. Johns
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The District of Columbia may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who acts directly or by an agent, as to a claim of relief arising from the person’s ... (3) causing tortious injury in the District of Columbia by an act or omission in the District of Columbia; (4) causes tortious injury in the District of Columbia by an act or omission outside the District of Columbia if he regularly does business, engages in any other persistent course of conduct ... in the District of Columbia.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ujnless we wish to delve into a magical mystery tour of 'projecting presences.'”
1 later decision 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.