Arroyo v. Wheat’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2002
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Hart, Schaffner & Marx · Coleman v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. · Burks v. Griffith · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Sims · Peters v. E.W. Bliss Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 4(j) was involved in Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Sims, 100 F.R.D. 792, 797 (N.D.Ala.1984), where the Court acknowledged that the plaintiff had failed to follow the rules for obtaining service, but construed liberally the plaintiff's abortive efforts as having been bona fide. It granted additional time to perfect proper service. It was not intended that Rule 4(j) would be enforced harshly; that is why liberal extensions of time are permitted under Rule 6(b). Burks v. Griffith, 100 F.R.D. 491, 492 (N.D.N.Y.1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.