Gault v. Thacher

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a defendant’s corporate officer status “does not prevent a court from exercising personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporate officer if that officer has otherwise exerted the sufficient minimum contacts with the forum state”
• “Regardless of whether [the officer] was the ‘guiding spirit’ for some of the [plaintiff’s] harms, those harms stem solely from decisions made and actions taken in Georgia.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

45 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• International Shoe Co. v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1945-12-03· cited 18,588×
• Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 12,253×
• World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 8,668×
• Hanson v. Denckla
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 7,025×
• Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-24· cited 6,200×
• Republican Party of North Carolina v. Martin
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-11-24· cited 1,890×
• Francis v. Giacomelli
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-12-02· cited 1,790×
• J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-27· cited 953×
• David T. Combs Sarah E. Combs v. James O. Bakker Tammy Faye Bakker Richard Dortch
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-09-26· cited 730×
• Ticketmaster-New York, Inc. v. Joseph M. Alioto
  First Circuit· 1994-04-13· cited 597×
• Consulting Engineers Corp. v. Geometric Ltd.
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-03-23· cited 470×
• In Re the Celotex Corporation, Debtor. Owens-Illinois, Incorporated v. Rapid American Corporation, Successor in Interest to Philip-Carey Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-09-04· cited 386×
• Adam Ostrzenski, M.D. v. Mark S. Seigel, M.D., Adam Ostrzenski, M.D. v. Mark S. Seigel, M.D.
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-24· cited 298×
• Christian Science Board of Directors v. Nolan
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-07-26· cited 285×
• Ellicott MacHine Corporation, Incorporated v. John Holland Party Limited
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-05-20· cited 151×
• Wright v. Craft
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-11-27· cited 150×
• Columbia Briargate Company, a Limited Partnership v. First National Bank in Dallas Vaughn Pearson and A.S. Kyzer, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1983-08-10· cited 125×
• Arnold v. Society for Sayings Bancorp, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-06-25· cited 121×