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Just use the definition for a foul right out of the rulebook- i.e. "A personal fouls is a player foul which involves illegal contact with an opponent while the ball is alive, which hinders an opponent from performing normal defensive and offensive movements'. Always a judgement call, but I'd say that it's pretty likely that pushing an opponent with their body and forcing them OOB has probably "hindered" that opponent from performing their normal offensive duty. The amount of coantact doesn't really matter in this case. The fact that the defender gained a huge advantage from the contact- i.e. a turnover- certainly does matter.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jun 19th, 2004 at 01:55 PM]
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