Nicholas v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 305 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Rambo v. American Southern Insurance (1988), Far West Capital, Inc. v. Towne (1995)
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Escude Cruz v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Stuart v. Spademan
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the constitutional touchstone remains whether the defendant purposefully established “minimum contacts” in the forum State_ A defendant will be amenable to in personam jurisdiction if he has purposefully availed himself of the privileges and protection of a state’s laws, and if his conduct and connection with the forum state are such that he should reasonably anticipate being haled into court there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) every foreign corporation ... not a resident of this state ... that shall have the necessary minimum contacts with the state of Rhode Island, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the state ..., and the courts of this state shall hold such foreign corporation ... amenable to suit in Rhode Island in every case not contrary to the provisions of the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“generalized reference to inter-state contacts 'via telephone communications' and 'via U.S. mail,' without more,”
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.