In Re: Michael Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably in Re Lon McGhan (2002), In Re: George Schmitz (2001)
11 district · 1 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 · Singleton v. Wulff · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Hormel v. Helvering
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint, the court ... shall dismiss the action without prejudice as to that defendant or direct that service be effected within a specified time; provided that if the plaintiff shows good cause for the failure, the court shall extend the time for an appropriate period.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the party that had to be served personally received actual notice [within 120 days], (b) the defendant would suffer no prejudice from the defect in service, (c) there is a justifiable excuse for the failure to serve properly, and (d) the plaintiff would be severely prejudiced if his complaint were dismissed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if there is no good cause, the court has the discretion to dismiss without prejudice or to extend the time period.”
2 later decisions 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.