Hammad v. Tate Access Floors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 district ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Henderson v. United States · Espinoza v. United States · Powell v. Starwalt · Mendez v. Elliot · Thompson v. Brown
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If 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 upon the court’s own initiative with notice to such party or upon motion....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But if the plaintiff shows good cause for the failure, the court must extend the time for service for an appropriate period”); see Zapata v. City of New York, 502 F.3d 192, 197 (2d Cir.2007) (questioning whether the extension of time for good cause should be characterized as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n light of the Supreme Court’s clear explication of the meaning of Rule 4(m) in Henderson to allow discretionary extensions of time for service of process, in conjunction with the other circuit courts’ unanimous rejection of the Mendez court’s position, this court concludes that Mendez is no longer good law and that, if given the opportunity, the Fourth Circuit perforce would adopt the interpretation of Rule 4(m) held by the Supreme Court and the other circuit courts.”
1 later decision 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.