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Harris v. Balk

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
198 U.S. 215
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
35 of 35
Citing cases (total)
35
Treatment dates
1977
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. All 35 flagged citations to Harris v. Balk have been read. Shaffer v. Heitner overruled Harris's rule permitting jurisdiction over a nonresident's debt based on the debt's presence alone: such jurisdiction must satisfy the minimum contacts standard.
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Courts continue to cite Harris for the separate principle that a debt can be collected where the debtor is subject to jurisdiction. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

35 later cases cite Harris v. Balk; 35 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court overruled Harris's property based jurisdiction rationale to the extent it allowed a court to reach a nonresident's debt without the minimum contacts required by International Shoe.

    Shaffer v. Heitner · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    It would not be fruitful for us to re-examine the facts of cases decided on the rationales of Pennoyer and Harris to determine whether jurisdiction might have been sustained under the standard we adopt today. To the extent that prior decisions are inconsistent with this standard, they are overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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