Howard v. Sikula’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 101 (Acquisition Improvement and Accountability Act of 2007) · 10 U.S.C. § 8062 · 10 U.S.C. § 8076 · 10 U.S.C. § 8078 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442
Relies on Feres v. United States · Barr v. Matteo · Willingham v. Morgan · Gray III v. Bell · Stanley v. Central Intelligence Agency
Most-quoted passages
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“(j) SUMMONS: TIME LIMIT FOR SERVICE. If service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint, the action shall be dismissed as to that defendant without prejudice upon motion or upon the court’s own initiative. If service is made by mail pursuant to Rule 4(d)(8), service shall be deemed to have been made for purposes of this provision as of the date on which the process was accepted, refused, or returned as unclaimed. This provision shall not apply to service in a foreign country pursuant to Rule 4(i).”
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.