Leo v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2007
3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co. · Bomze v. Nardis Sportswear, Inc. · Fashion Page, Ltd. v. Zurich Insurance · Taylor v. Granite State Provident Ass'n
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nevertheless, the process server must do what is reasonable to see that notice is properly delivered, which includes, going to the corporation's regular place of business, relying on company employees to identify proper persons to accept service and delivering the summons according to their directions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.