No. 96-11125’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2024
1 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · West v. Conrail · St. Paul Reinsurance Co. v. Greenberg · Atorie Air, Inc. v. Federal Aviation Administration · Austin Vernell, Acting for and on Behalf of the Community Estate and Helen Vernell, Individually v. United States Postal Service
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Rule 6(b)(2), a court may extend the 120 day period if failure to serve resulted from excusable neglect.”
2 later decisions 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.