Gordon v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably McGuckin v. Smith (1992), Floyd v. United States (1990)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Strong v. United States · Bersch v. Drexel Firestone, Inc. · Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Lyell Theatre Corp. v. Loews Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint and the party on whose behalf such service was required cannot show good cause why such service was not made within that period, the action shall be dismissed as to that defendant without prejudice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGuckin v. Smith“whether the delay in service was “the result of mere inadvertence,” or whether there has been a “reasonable effort” to effect service[,] ... [2] prejudice to the defendant^] ... [and 3] whether or not the plaintiff has moved under Fed.R.Civ.P. 6(b) for an enlargement of time in which to effect service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislative notes [to Rule 4(j) ] indicate that if the plaintiff has made 'reasonable' efforts to effect service the court will 'undoubtedly' grant the time extension....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGuckin v. Smith
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.