Geller v. Newell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii (1985), Del Raine v. Carlson (1987)
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc. · Arrowsmith v. United Press International · Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. Miller · George Reiner & Co. v. Schwartz · Beacon Enterprises, Inc. v. Menzies
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it would be prudent for a plaintiff who will be unable to complete service within the statutory period to move for an enlargement of time under Rule 6(b) prior to the running of the 120 days, the failure to do so does not mandate dismissal under Rule 4(j)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The harsh sanction of Rule 4(j) is appropriate to those cases in which non-service was the result of mere inadvertence.”
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.