Brujis v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2013
3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. Miller · 141 Ill. 2d 244 - Rollins v. Ellwood · 157 Ill. 2d 484 - Torcasso v. Standard Outdoor Sales, Inc. · Legg v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because [the police officer’s] conduct in Illinois was a product of, and was motivated by, his employment situation and not his personal interests, we conclude that it would be unfair to use this conduct to assert personal jurisdiction over him as an individual.... In practical terms, an employee, especially one in [the police officer’s] position, has little or no alternative besides unemployment when ordered to enter another State to carey out the wishes of his employer. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unfair and unreasonable, under Illinois’ due process clause and the tenets of our concept of the jurisdiction power of the Illinois courts, to assert personal jurisdiction over an individual who seeks the protection and benefits of Illinois law, not to serve his personal interests, but to serve those of his employer or principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f [the defendant's] action in coming into Illinois to fire and defame [the plaintiff] was done solely on behalf of [the defendant's employer], he is under the fiduciary shield and this regardless of whether he exercised discretion rather than merely carrying out precise orders mechanically.”
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.