Gray v. T O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 864 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Nowak v. Tak How Investments, Ltd. (1996), Keds Corp. v. Renee International Trading Corp. (1989)
7 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 Costello v. United States · Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott Co. · Escude Cruz v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Seneca Foods Corp. · Hahn v. Vermont Law School
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ a] court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action in law or equity arising from the person’s ... transacting any business in this Commonwealth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In diversity actions where personal jurisdiction has been challenged ... federal courts look to state law to determine whether jurisdictional requirements have been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and applies to any purposeful acts by an individual, whether personal, private, or commercial,”
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.