Nathan v. Rupcic’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1999
3 federal appellate ·
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 Conley v. Barton · Judd v. Judd · People's Mortgage Corp. v. Wilton · Home Savings Bank v. Young · Grand River Avenue Christian Church v. Berkshire Life Insurance
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule relating to the commencement of suit is that a suit is commenced when the summons is in good faith placed in the hands of an officer for service.””
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.