No. 82-4718’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Libertad v. Welch (1995), Chan v. Society Expeditions, Inc. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts normally will be liberal in permitting amendments to a summons to avoid injustice. As long as the summons is sufficiently accurate to provide proper notice, an amendment probably will be allowed and the error deemed harmless.... A defendant's appearance in the action should be enough to prevent any technical error in form from providing a basis for invalidating the process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 4 is a flexible rule that should be liberally construed so long as a party receives sufficient notice of the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'ascertaining whether the party seeking arbitration is making a claim which on its face is governed by the contract.'”
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.