Ross v. Ross

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the language of section 3(a) “is general and applies to any purposeful acts by an individual, whether personal, private or commercial”
• noting that the language of section 3(a) “is general and applies to any purposeful acts by an individual, whether personal, private or commercial”
• “‘[Transacting any business in this commonwealth’” applies to noncommercial activity and includes acts which relate to marriage
• permitting husband to maintain action for specific enforcement of separation agreement to offset earlier modification order of probate judge
• execution by defendant of separation agreement in New York, which obligated him to pay extraordinary medical expenses of child, was a transaction of business within that State
• ‘The statute’s reference to ‘transacting any business’ is general and applies to any purposeful acts by an individual, whether personal, private, or commercial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

67 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Droukas v. Divers Training Academy, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-04· cited 172×
• William A. Hahn v. Vermont Law School
  First Circuit· 1983-01-21· cited 160×
• Bond Leather Co., Inc. v. Q.T. Shoe Mfg. Co., Inc. And Martin S. Nadler, Bond Leather Co., Inc. v. Q.T. Shoe Mfg. Co., Inc., Melvin Nadler, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1985-06-18· cited 140×
• The Ealing Corporation v. Harrods Limited
  First Circuit· 1986-05-16· cited 119×
• Nova Biomedical Corporation v. Willi Moller, D/b/a/ Gebruder Moller Glasblaserei
  First Circuit· 1980-08-08· cited 88×
• Mary Marino and Thomas Marino v. Hyatt Corporation
  First Circuit· 1986-06-16· cited 85×
• Carlson Corp. v. University of Vermont
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-06· cited 78×
• Johnson v. Witkowski
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-06-19· cited 61×
• Nile v. Nile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-29· cited 50×
• Morrill v. Tong
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-13· cited 44×
• T.F. v. B.L.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-08-25· cited 43×
• Haddad v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-03-30· cited 42×
• Burtner v. Burnham
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-02-05· cited 34×
• Haas v. Breton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-23· cited 31×
• Stephen L. Gray v. Michael T. O'Brien and the Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation
  First Circuit· 1985-12-03· cited 25×
• Lillie Benally and Grant Benally on Behalf of Norman Benally, an Adult v. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-10-03· cited 24×
• Binder v. Binder
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-06-15· cited 21×
• Buckeye Associates, Ltd. v. Fila Sports, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 1985-09-04· cited 20×
• Kennedy v. Kennedy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-06-27· cited 20×
• Whistler Corp. v. Solar Electronics, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 1988-04-25· cited 19×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• International Shoe Co. v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1945-12-03· cited 18,588×
• Hanson v. Denckla
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 7,025×
• \Automatic\ Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Seneca Foods Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-03-16· cited 151×
• David Neifeld v. Meyer Steinberg. David Neifeld v. Meyer Steinberg
  Third Circuit· 1971-02-19· cited 101×
• Blank v. Bitker
  Seventh Circuit· 1943-06-10· cited 66×
• Leeper v. Leeper
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1974-04-30· cited 54×
• Wood v. Wood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-02-03· cited 23×
• Strasser v. Schlesinger
  New York Supreme Court· 1967-03-03· cited 9×
• Webb v. United States
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1957-06-19· cited 8×