Lambert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 296 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004), Davis v. Johnson (1998)
8 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Penson v. Ohio · Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. New Mexico
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 39 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 filing the complaint, the court ... shall dismiss the action without prejudice ... provided that if the plaintiff shows good cause for the failure, the court shall extend the time for service for an appropriate period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court's order dismissing the suit without prejudice left Lambert in the same position as if the first suit had never been filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Johnson“The doctrine of equitable tolling preserves a plaintiff's claims when strict application of the statute of limitations would be inequitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.