minimal contacts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 357 U.S. 235 - Hanson v. Denckla · 1958Most cited · 14,236 citing opinions
a defendant may not be called upon to do so unless he has had the 'minimal contacts' with that State that are a prerequisite to its exercise of power over him
How often courts cite the case defining “minimal contacts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “minimal contacts” — 14,218 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.